Over the weekend, we had one post explaining why it might be time to forget 9-11. I do not think it is time, nor should there ever be a time to forget 9-11. This is because 9-11 has become a real event which has entered into time and become experienced by everyone in the world. In a world where people have lost root of their connection to everyone else, events break through the emptiness of daily lives and remind us we are connected, and what we do has an effect on everyone else. While it is true that greater disasters have happened since 9-11 in the world, there has been no greater event than 9-11, no greater example of the interdependence of the world and how events can and do shape the course of history. While many other questions can be, and should be, raised about 9-11 (how did it come about? who are the victims of 9-11? what value should the opinions of the victims of 9-11 have, not just for the United States, but for the world? ), its importance lies beyond these questions. Its importance reminds us that the world continues to move on, to have value, and events of consequence can and will occur, not only disrupting the lives of the world, but reconstructing them, creating something new in the process. Events do not have to be, like 9-11, disasters; but if we do not learn the lesson of the disaster, we will have greater difficulty in learning the lessons of grace.
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