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  1. Dear Becky……This story hit me like a brick. It is my story except a little backward for me. Back in 1967 at college, I met the love of my life and everything seemed fine and we both professed our love to each other, but apparently I was wrong. As we prepared to go back to our third year, I was so excited about being able to see him again whenever I wanted. NO, when I got back and kept seeing if he was there, I ran into his roommate and asked if Jim was back. He gave me an odd look and started to cry. He said, Betsy, are you telling me that he did not tell you he wasn’t coming back here? I said, ” What? ” and collapsed on the steps in a ball of hysteria. He had transferred to another college. Of course there is so much more to the story, but all I will say is that I had a nervous breakdown and couldn’t even go to classes. Just laid in my bed just crying with a terrible pain in my heart. I couldn’t tell my parents and my friends did not know what to do to help me. It was never solved and some years later I read that he was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon ( no details though ). Maybe God was helping me by this happening as He knows everything and He did not not want me to go through that. Fast forward to 9/11. I was considerably much older then and was working at a place I loved as a manager. I also will never forget one detail of that horrible day as you did to, Becky. I was at my desk and another manager in my same area came running down the aisle and grabbed my hand and said we have to go in the lunch room where there is a TV. Why? I said. There has been a terrorist attack in New York. We were in PA. As news drifted around the office more and more people came running where we were. You could hear a pin drop in that large lunch room. Nobody knew what to say and many of us prayed through tears for all the people that were trapped or dead. An hour later our upper management told all of the employees there and there were 100’s to go home to our families and then we heard about the brave people on that plane in PA that were heroes. They knew they they were going to die, but they made sure that their plane was not going to attack another place in our country. Of course, we all watched TV when we got home. As things started to sink into our minds, I know I thought of Peace to and I decided to pray again but in a different way. Your devotional today Becky was so perfect, as I read it I cried again, but I stopped then and went back to praying for Peace from the Lord. It really helped me. It didn’t erase what happened that day, but I was able to handle the struggle in my mind a different way. Boy, I certainly would have loved to have the (in) book on 100 Days of Strength in any Struggle as I do now plus all the other books I have gotten from your marvelous community of women. Today I will pray again for all those people that we lost and the First Responders who bravely went in there not knowing what they were going to see. Our world was upside down for months. Thank you Becky for your devotion today. I wish everyone could read it and remember what it was like then, if they are old enough. I am sorry about you and your boyfriend too, especially on that particular day. I also thank you for the scriptures and prayer. I send my love and respect to you as we all have to remember God will give us Peace if we just pray and ask Him for it. Take care today and if you can, please include me in your prayers for the terrible situation I am still going through after 17 months……………………….Betsy Basile

    • Betsy, your story is so tender. Surely God catches every tear and walks with us through every season. Thank you for sharing these pieces of your heart and memories. I’m praying for you now.

    • Elaine, God sees you. He is right there with you. The Prince of Peace is opening his hand and heart to you. You are his. Praying he gives you new eyes to recognize him today. You are so loved.

  2. Thank you Becky. This is so encouraging! I love that verse in John. Would you please pray for an extended family member who is dying from ovarian cancer. Joanie is not a believer and is not open to the gospel. I have been praying for months. She doesn’t have much more time here.
    Thanks for your words of encouragement.

    • Claudia, I’ll be praying for Joanie who has cancer ♋️ and that she will believe in Jesus and be with Him in heaven when she dies. Hopefully she’ll recover from cancer as my daughter had same one as well and still alive and almost out of pain.

    • Claudia, I am praying now for Joanie. God wants nothing more than to welcome her into his kingdom. Praying her heart will soften as he faithfully pursues her. May she respond to the hope that is available in Jesus!

  3. Remembering 9/11 still breaks my heart due to people who died and those who helped other people that day in NY. Just listening to the radio after I woke up in another bedroom in our house got me to get up and turn on the tv. I saw the second twin tower get hit. I cried and started praying when I first heard about it. I had my son get up from bed and he saw it too. He thought it was a movie that we had seen on tv. Our daughter was at a college in WA. She called me later that day. She was 40 minutes away from Seattle so there may have been a threat to the Space Needle in Seattle. I was in another bedroom due to not
    wanting to sleep with my husband as I was upset with him for awhile. But we did get things figured out, and we are still together. Next month is our 47th anniversary. I’m glad to.get support from Jesus in my life or it would be different. He’s with our son with what he’s going through right now. Becky, I liked what you wrote and the scripture verse is a good one. God bless you , Becky

  4. I was born in November of 1999, so I remember learning about 9/11 through school assignments and stuff we did on 9/11 each year. My school also used to have a moment of silence on that day.
    Also, thank you for the reminder of His peace and I hope we will all feel His peace so near to us.

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