Overcoming Tragedy & Loss

"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom,
not a guide by which to live"
                                    Robert Kennedy


Today it has been 12 years since that fateful day where thousands of lives were lost in the
9/11 tragedy.

Thousands of families left behind were directly impacted by their loss and millions of us
grieved with them.

Every time I watch the footage I think of the people on those planes and in the towers.

What were they thinking?

Who did they call?

The calls that were made that day were to tell their loved ones how much they loved them.

They were not calling about work, or keeping a grudge, not forgiving someone,
or to clean the house.

They were all about LOVE.

I will never forget them.

Our lesson to learn today is that tragedy can strike at any time.

Why wait for that moment to happen before you tell someone you love them or forgive them?

The best honor we can bestow upon those who lost their life on 9/11 is to live our lives
to the fullest every day.

A tragedy is made even worse if we live in it.

We have to learn from it and move forward by vowing to be the best people we can be,
all the time, not just when disaster strikes.

The City of New York came together in an unprecedented way on that day.

The world came together and watched in disbelief and mourned and cried in horror
at the enormity of the tragedy.

Now it's back to business as usual.

What did we really learn from this?

If we learn nothing, and change nothing, their deaths were in vain.

Don't wait to be on that plane, metaphorically speaking, to make that call.

Make it today.

Make amends.

Make peace.

Nothing matters at the end of the day but how did you love?

It is not time that heals all wounds, it is love that heals.

If we love each other, this kind of tragedy can never happen again.