- Mood: Reminiscing
- Music: Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Raining all day. Somber weather for a somber time.
Remember
As I watched a special session of Congress meet on the evening of September 11, 2001, and as I watched President Bush address Congress and the nation, I vowed to do something with my life. I vowed to do something that would serve my nation and fellow citizen.
I became a lawyer.
On September 11, 2001, I was a senior at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University). That morning I walked into the Student Rec center under a crisp, blue autumn sky. I was going to work out before class. I saw the first burning building along the row of tv's in front of the treadmills, each with a bouncing co-ed on it, eyes glued. By the time I hit the last tv, the second jet slammed into the second tower.
That night my parents (my wife and I were living with them during my final semester of college), my wife, my kid sister, and I watched the news and President Bush's address. I knew that I had to do something with my life.
I graduated a few months later, magna cum laude, with an English degree. Six months later I was on my way to the Texas Department of Public Safety's State Trooper Academy. I had spent six months getting into the program. I was one of almost four thousand applicants. They chose less than 350 of us to enter the program.
I spent a week at the academy and realized I didn't want to be a state trooper due to the strain it would put on my marriage. I would have loved the job, but not the resulting divorce.
Two years after that I started law school at St. Mary's. I graduated in 2007 and have been practicing on my own for almost two years. Since September 11, 2001, my wife and I have had 4 children, the oldest is now 5. It has been easy to forget in that time just what I vowed to do on the evening of September 11, 2001.
Today I realized it all over again. But as I read my Bible this morning, I realized that the vow I made 8 years ago didn't include God. I wasn't living in the Way back then. I was achieving great things, but I was lost.
Today, I again vowed to make my life about helping others, but with a bigger purpose. Today I vow to continue to minister to others in any way I can about God. About Jesus. About the Word and the Way.
I pray for the dead of 9/11/01. I pray for those who fight against evil know. And I pray for myself and for you so that we can be better and bigger ministers for God.
Until tomorrow...
Come Believe.
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