After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

It is you who will lead them through the carnage, through the hatred, and through the violence. They will follow the leader who will lead them to safety by defeating the worst of all evils.

Prayer inserts me into the middle of any battlefield regardless of how gruesome or bloodied. And in the carnage of whatever that battle might be, it allows me to deliver a force greater than any raging on that field.

I am left with no alternative than to look beyond the efforts of men, for efforts of those sort leave cities flattened, nations teetering, and lives crushed. Instead, I must shift the whole of my gaze to the God who tenderly kneels in the midst of this unimaginable carnage and effortlessly makes the healing imaginable.

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.