ATF: 9-11

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

***NOTE***

Just in case you have been wondering what constitutes an all-time favorite tune to me, it is a song that I can listen to over and over again without getting tired of hearing it.  Well, the two included this week are quite different.  In fact, they are both too naturally gut-wrenching for me to listen to more than once every year or so.  On the other hand, with today’s date being what it is, I am compelled to include two tribute pieces that should never fade into obscurity—especially not now, when it is looking like we are on the eve of another destructive period with the ISIS threat looming large on the horizon.  No, I do not think ISIS will seek to make large-scale attacks upon us and our valued allies abroad, but several much smaller incidents would turn our generally peaceful existences into chaos.  Therefore, please pay close attention to the second one here—despite there being some of it that is simply wrong.  It is close enough, though.  For life in this world was never meant to last but for a little while in comparison to the whole of eternity.

9-11 Heaven Remix Tribute

"It's been a year, daddy.

I really, really miss you.

Mommy says you’re safe now in a beautiful place called, Heaven.

We had your favorite dinner tonight.

I ate it all up!

Even though I don't like carrots.

I learned how to swim this summer.

I can even open my eyes while I'm underwater.

Can’t you see me?

I started kindergarten this year.

I carry a picture of us in my Blue's Clues lunchbox.

You are the greatest daddy.

I can swing on the swing by myself!

Even though I miss you pushing me.

Can’t you see me?

I miss how you used to tickle me.

Tickle my belly.

My belly hurts.

I try not to cry.

Mommy says it's okay.

I know you don't like it when I cry.

You never wanted me to be sad.

I try, daddy, but it hurts.

Is it true you're not coming home?

Maybe someday.

I can visit you in heaven—okay?

It's time for me to go bed now.

I sleep with the light on.

Just in case you come home and kiss me goodnight.

I love you so much.

I miss you Daddy."

9-11 Silent Night/I Was There Remix Tribute

“You say you will never forget where you were when you heard the news on September 11, 2001.

Neither will I.

I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled room with a man who called his wife to say goodbye.

I held his fingers steady as he dialed.

I gave him the peace to say, ‘Honey, I am not going to make it, but it is okay, I am ready to go.’

I was with his wife when he called as she fed breakfast to their children.

I held her up as she tried to understand his words, and as she realized he wasn't coming home that night.

I was in the stairwell of the 23rd floor when a woman cried out to Me for help.

'I have been knocking on the door of your heart for 50 years,' I said.

'Of course I will show you the way home—only believe in Me now.'
I was at the base of the building with the priest ministering to the injured and devastated souls.

I took him home to tend to his flock in Heaven.

He heard my voice and answered.

I was on all four of those planes.

In every seat.

With every prayer.

I was with the crew as they were overtaken.

I was in the very hearts of the believers there.
Comforting and assuring them that their faith has saved them.

I was in Texas, Kansas, London.

I was standing next to you when you heard the terrible news.

Did you sense Me?

I want you to know that I saw every face.

I knew every name.
Though, not all know Me.

Some met Me for the first time on the 86th floor.

Some sought Me with their last breath.

Some couldn't hear Me calling to them through the smoke and flames

'Come to Me.

This way.

Take my hand.'

Some chose, for the final time, to ignore Me, but I was there.

I did not place you in the Tower that day.

You may not know why, but I do.

However, if you were there in that explosive moment in time—would you have reached for Me?

September 11, 2001 was not the end of the journey for you.

But someday your journey will end.

And I will be there for you as well.

Seek Me now while I may be found.

Then, at any moment, you know you’re ready to go.

I will be in the stairwell of your final moments.

Remember...I love you."

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