Dear Friends:
As I attend memorial services and, once again, reflect on the events that changed my life 7 years ago, I realize that what God has given me to help me get through the tough times is you. Each and every one of you and all the wonderful people that come and go in my life are blessings that remind me that I am here to serve my fellow man.
Through reflection and a deep sense of spirit I have come to know that we are here for each other. God has placed his creation on this earth and charged us with the care of our brother and sister. Where there is hunger let us bring food, where there is sadness let us spread joy, where people cry out for peace let us be peacemakers, let us live each day in the examples of the men and women of God who have come before us and have shown us that God is love and that we should love one another.
In the days after 9/11 we all witnessed a swell of love and compassion that filled the world, and that brought us closer together than we had been since Pearl Harbor or the loss of great leaders who tried to bring us closer together like John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Events that shape the world we live in.
I pray that we remember what we felt then and how we all wished there was something we could do to help. Now is our chance. Go out and spread some love to those in our world. Lend a hand to a neighbor or an elderly person you know. Mentor a child and show him or her that we care about the future of our children and will dedicate a little of our time to help them become the best that they can be. Call your family and share the message that they are loved and thought about, and in their time of need they have someone they can call on.
I know it sound like a lot but we do not have to do it all at once: just be willing to do a little every day and who knows, in a few years, if enough people join us, we will have a better world for it. I pray to never pass up the opportunity to do a good deed for my fellow man. I pray that God guide my steps each and every day and when I decide that I know the way, and find myself a little lost, I pray that I have sense enough to get back in the seat that suites me best - co-pilot.
God Bless you all
Daniel
