How Should We Respond to Terrorists Acts?
To that scene of horror, my first response
Was influenced by secular thought.
The emotions of hatred and anger appeared,
With others that I had not sought.
But worldly thoughts can view heinous acts
With bitterness, vengeance and pain.
While thoughts inspired in the presence of God
Would provide for a spiritual gain.
To Christians, Good Friday is known as a day
Of dread-filled pain, deep sorrow.
For their savior, hanging nailed to the cross,
Had died, would not see the morrow.
But Easter to Christians is a day of hope,
A day filled with joy and peace,
A day when love is predominant,
When feelings of anguish would cease.
For on that glorious Easter Day,
When their Lord did re-appear,
To Christians, the resurrection of Christ
Brought hope in place of fear.
September Eleven we can look upon
In a worldly or spiritual way.
With Good Friday, we take the secular view,
The Godly with Easter Day.
We can choose a Good Friday or Easter mode
In assessing the terrorist scene.
We can strike with a vengeance all things in our path,
Using all indiscriminate means.
Or instead we could seek, in the presence of God,
How justice we best could attain.
If we find and destroy the cancerous cells,
But allow healthy cells to remain.