November 15, 2007

Journal Excerpts: 9/11/2001

6:54 pm | N/A

I recently downloaded all my undergraduate material from my personal drive at GVSU. It’s great fun looking through it, and I can’t imagine I actually did all that stuff. There are lots of journals for various classes (many of them in German which I can’t figure out anymore), and my personal favorite is the journal for Psychology 101, which I took my freshman semester. Here’s the entry for September 11.

9/11
The World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked today. It’s strange how quickly things can change in this world. In class we talked about our reactions to the whole business, and it was good opportunity to talk about some very sobering things, like death and control. I personally am not troubled by the thought of not being in control of my own life, because I know that my life is in the capable control of my lord Jesus. But the attack was just a reminder to me of how weak man really is. For me, the question of “why?” is already answered: I don’t need to know why. I know that it is God’s will. We also talked about standards, and how we all have standards by which we order our lives. Why was it “wrong” for the terrorists to do what they did? It can only be because they transgressed God’s Law, which is the only true universal moral standard. So those were my initial thoughts in the wake of the attack.