Tragedy Brings Heightened Awareness of Our Intricate Human Connections

Dateline - September 11, 2001

Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in NY and the Pentagon in Washington D.C.

Today's tragic event awakened me to a heightened reality of our connections to one another. I could not deny that my heart was grieving for the hurts of others.

Sept. 11. 2001 is going to be one of those extraordinary days in history that everyone will always remember where they were and what they were doing, not unlike the attack on Pearl Harbor or the assassination of President J.F. Kennedy. My day may be non-eventful compared to the many that we will be hearing about in the days to come, but this is my story.

This morning at approximately 9:45 AM (central time) I received a phone call from my husband. I could hear him choking back tears as he urged me to go turn the television on. It is not my habit to turn on the television during the daytime except for an hour during my lunch break. My mornings are normally a time of solitude for me. I seldom turn my computer on before 11 AM.

New York City is my husband's hometown and although we live in Iowa, his love of the city has never left him. His mother worked for many years in the United Nations building as a waitress. Today they evacuated that building as well as many other government offices for security reasons. Reality was sinking in for both of us how easily our lives can be shaken. I don't think our feelings were all that different from what most of the nation was experiencing.

I was in a bit of a dark mood Monday night that I could not shake. Unable to sleep I was sobbing into my pillow around 3 AM, a feeling of unhappiness was flooding over me. I could not put my finger on why I was unhappy. Now I wonder if I didn't somehow energetically tap into knowing that something horrible was going to happen. I'll never know for sure.

I believe that there are intricate invisible lines of energy that connect us to one another. Yet, because I work at home and have limited contact with others throughout a normal day it is very easy for me to feel isolated and alone. Today's tragic event awakened me to a heightened reality of our spiritual connections to one another. I could not deny that my heart was grieving for the hurts of others.