If you are one of those folks who lives by a clock that never has enough time on it, keep reading. Maybe there?s even a chance your trying to read this while driving. If that?s the case, please don?t continue to read past the next punctuation mark. (Stop! I mean it. Please. Before you get yourself killed.) Or, if you?re reading this while inhaling your lunch and glancing at your watch every fifteen seconds, relax. I hope that by the time you?re finished you?ll have a different perspective on what you?re doing to yourself if your rushed behavior is indicative of an over-stressed, maxed-out lifestyle that you?re trying to live ?in Jesus? Name.?

Stressed, rushed, hurried, harried or otherwise, I?m glad you?re reading this right now because I want to address a subtle deficiency that is robbing God?s people of the abundant life Jesus promised.

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Louis Pasteur, the pioneer of immunology, lived at a time when thousands of people died each year of rabies. Pasteur had worked for years on a vaccine. Just as he was about to begin experimenting in himself, a 9 year-old boy, Joseph Meister, was bitten by a rabid dog. The boy’s mother begged Pasteur to use his experimental vaccine on her son. Pasteur gave young Joseph injections for ten days. The boy lived. Decades later, of all the things Pasteur could have etched on his tombstone, he asked for three words: Joseph Meister lived.

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What seemed so surreal yesterday now seems all too real for most Americans. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, I understand that there are far more questions than answers that are being offered up at this point and I certainly don?t comment today as one who claims to have all the answers. However, I have drawn some conclusions that, if accurate, may be significant and noteworthy.

Let me make clear in the beginning, lest the contents herein be misunderstood, that I believe in America and what she stands for as a free nation. I believe that this is the greatest country on the face of the planet. I am proud be an American as I have watched American citizens in New York and Washington, as well as the rest of the country, come to the aid of their fellow countrymen. I hurt for the victims and their families, as we all do, and my prayers join those of millions of people around the world who are praying for everyone involved in the rescue, recovery, and retaliation efforts in the aftermath of this heinous attack. I believe that with all our differences in this country, this tragedy will continue to galvanize the American people as we stand together through this grievous experience as one nation. Great good can result in spite of great evil.

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