Scheduled
for months to be in the New York area for an important meeting on September 11,
2001, I began to hear these words in prayer about six weeks ahead when I prayed
about the coming meeting: “Don’t make any plane reservations, don’t make any
hotel reservations, don’t drive.”
These
words came several times during prayer over the weeks as September 11 approached,
sometimes in abbreviated form: ‘No airplane reservations, no hotel
reservations, don’t drive.”
Since
the appointment was so important, involved many people, and could not easily be
changed, I asked my minister and his wife to come to the house to discuss and
to pray. All seemed dumbfounded at what
might happen if I did not show up at the meeting. One said, “You can’t go!” And the other said, “You have to go!”
Finally,
Cathy and I made the decision to fly up several days ahead so as to already be
in the area on September 11. The morning
of the 11th, we went to the sight of the meeting. As we walked on our way through the lobby of
a building across the street, we were drawn by a stranger’s alarm to a
television set in the lobby lounge. And
we stood there, silent, watching on the television the horrible scenes of
airplanes striking the World Trade Center.
A man at a nearby table prayed, thinking this was the end of the world.
We
just stood watching for several minutes.
Once in a while we would look at each other and nod. After a while we walked on to the building of
our meeting. In short order a plane
crashed into the Pentagon. Our meeting
was canceled for the day.
God
had warned us. We weren’t even supposed
to be near.
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