We are familiar with traveling to and within Manhatten and feel at home there. Two Bermudians were in the World Trade Center Towers on September 11 and are still listed among the foreign nationals who are missing. This world is not our home, we are only passing through. Following is a message from our General Conference President. It is hard to find words which can express the horror we have experienced and how we now feel about it.
Words seem so empty it feels as though they have all been used up.
We sense our own human frailty, and we sense that the structures which we make around ourselves are not going to stand the test. And so we must look out elsewhere for help. As believers we are a people of hope, and we speak the language of hope, faith and belief in the future, even as we face such a distressing moment as we are now faced with. Therefore, difficult though these days are, as believers we are not the agents of gloom and hopelessness. But we do need to look to the Lord.