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Perspectives from Ground Zero: (CLICK YOUR BROWSERS "BACK" BUTTON WHEN FINISHED)
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Death and Destruction one never gets used to - both are to be avoided, but there are those who have mounted these steeds of evil and turned them upon the innocent, the guiltless, the harmless. They lust in death driven by false visions of a fictitious paradise; they glory and rejoice in the destruction of beautiful things. Driven jockeys of Dante's hell who do what their leaders would never ever do themselves. Death and Destruction have now gone their way. Their work is done - for now, they have made it possible for Dread and Despair to come. Dread is like a malignant cancer, a bastard offspring of crippling fear. It works its ruin upon the dreams of once happy families, it rots the brightness of futures now shattered. Despair comes most in the wee hours of night - in the darkest of the morning hours. What of the children? What of the house? How shall I survive? Who will take his place? Despair is the most wicked of the four horsemen, for it robs of hope and destroys the soul. It steals life of its meaning and brings doubt of God. Despair is a demon of hell to kill one's spirit. In another place, in another time, another faced the onslaught of these horsemen of Satan, and conquered them! You see the cross could not hold Him, the grave could not contain Him, and since they couldn't He rose to become the Great Physician, the Balm of Gilead, the Restorer of the human soul. David knew Him for he wrote, "The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. He insists that I lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside the still waters -He restores my soul…" In death He gives life, in destruction He brings restoration, in dread He instills peace, and in Despair He implants hope - you see, He is God for such times as these.
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