Today is Monday, September the 11th, 2023. Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. I'm Chris Elkins

with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

On most days, the earthquake that killed more than 2,100 people in Morocco, the numbers expected to rise,

would be the subject of today's daily article.

Conversely, given my perennial hope that this will finally be the year for the Dallas Cowboys,

I might reflect on their decisive season opening victory last night in New York.

Or I might discuss the faith of Cocoa Goff, who won the U.S.

Open at the age of 19 and is a very public Christian. But on 9-11, it feels wrong to focus on

anything but 9-11. Today is the only anniversary in American history, simply known by a number.

We don't refer to Independence Day as 7-4,

or Pearl Harbor as 12-7, or to any other significant event I can recall through its numeric designator. But see the numbers 9-11, and if you're old enough, you'll flash back to where you

were when the planes hit the buildings. You'll revisit

the horror of the burning skyscrapers, the people jumping to their deaths, the towers collapsing.

A few days ago, two more victims of the attack on the World Trade Center were identified through DNA technology.

A total of 2,753 people were killed in the towers and the planes,

many whom have yet to be identified. What are your emotions this morning? What would you like me to

say on this hard day? Let's take a moment to reflect on three attributes of God that are especially

relevant today. First, God offers empathy

in our grief. The youngest flight passenger who died on this day in 2001 was Christine Hanson,

a two-year-old on her way to Disneyland on United Flight 175. The oldest was Robert Norton, age 82, who was on American

Airlines Flight 11. And we must not forget the 343 firefighters who also died on 9-11.

In a seminary counseling class, I was taught never to say to a grieving person, I know how you feel.

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