The Trying of Men’s Souls

I sat up straight in a cold sweat and out of breath. I had been in a free fall, picking up speed by the millisecond.
But it was a dream. A dream I’ve had several times in my life … and I always remember the sensation. No control and impending death.
Carl Jung would have a lot to say about this dream…

But my focus shifts to people jumping out of the Twin Towers on that fateful day, September 11, 2001. I close my eyes and shudder and my breathing always becomes shallow. Sometimes, I have to put my head down to regain my composure. Then I say a prayer.
People confronted with death by burning alive or jumping to a certain death.
Even now, I am losing my breath and feeling that there is no option. There is no choice. The wall that you are up against is a fire that will incinerate you and the space in front of you is many stories down. Hopeless.

At this point in our country it seems like we still have a choice not to be in a hopeless situation. We have the ability to defeat the enemy that wants to tyrannize and destroy us. It is startling to see the democrat controlled congress saying we have failed since 9/11.It’s almost like a bad dream to hear and read remarks that the president has failed in protecting us from further attacks. “How absolutely stupid,”some of us say. Some of us even dare to say, … “Maybe these people are just plain evil.”

I wonder if these naysayers that are so self absorbed while keeping their heads in the sand would be different if they were cursed with the dream of falling?
I wonder if they would be on AMERICAS side, if in fact they felt that we are coming to time when the only hope we may have is to choose the way we die.
I wonder if today, or recently, they watched those pictures of many innocent people jumping to their death?
I wonder in all their power seeking and being seen in those oh so special places in Washington, if in fact they are ever confronted with the realization that the enemy that would fly airplanes into a building and tie bombs to themselves actually wants to kill them too.

This is a time that should try men’s souls.