To all those affected by 9/11/01.

I could argue that this entry applies to anyone. However, I am choosing to speak to those directly affected--who lost a relative, a friend, or who has suffered because of that day.

I cannot possibly know what it would be like to be you. I cannot feel your pain or your sorrow. I cannot know what it must be like to have a hole in your heart that may take decades and ages to fill. If this is not you, and you have healed and moved on, I congratulate you. To those of you who have not, I wish you only the best.

September 11, 2001, was a terrible day, and this sentence is a terrible understatement. It rocked America to its core. Yet it brought this country together in a way that nothing but a disaster of that scale could. And so perhaps those lives lost and scarred were worth it, but only in the long run. It's too bad that to benefit only in the future means a time of suffering in the now.

And so I wish you the best and only the best. I wish you healing and comfort and joy in life, and I pray that God will mend you. I have never known what it is like to suffer that deeply--because of what heroes have done, both on 9/11 and on every other occasion necessary. I am blessed. We all are.