CNN.com - Video is said to show bin Laden prepping for 9/11 attacks - Sep 7, 2006

CNN.com - Video is said to show bin Laden prepping for 9/11 attacks - Sep 7, 2006

How convenient for this to show up days before the 5 year anniversary. Pretty convienent that important elections come November which could change the face of the senate. Is this yet another scare tactic by gw to remind Americans of his successful war on terror? Yet, I reiterate, he can find Saddam holed up in a cave, but not find bin laden who is attached to daily dialysis? Please!

I just can't stop thinking about that day and those 8 minutes that he sat in that classroom, with the knowledge that we are being attacked, and he did nothing. Should he not have been giving military directives? Why wouldn't he assume that the planes hitting the towers weren't just a distraction to something worse to come? Shouldn't our president be smart enough to think and act on such assumptions???

Inspirational - 03 September 2006

Do you ever have those moments when you feel that the person up above is talking to you? (If you believe in a supreme being that is.)

Well, I think I am having one of those days. Today, I watched a dvd I rented, Akeelah and the Bee. The movie was "ok" but nothing wonderful. Although, the little girl was a great actress. I had thought it was based on a true story, but apparently not. Anyway, she read this poem that her coach had on the wall, and I swear it was the first time I had heard it, but I thought, WOW. What a great poem.

SO I came to the net to search for it, but couldn't find it referenced anywhere.

SO, here I am at 9:30, nothing else to watch, started watching Coach Carter. It had already been on 30 minutes, so that is something I usually don't do, but it involved me and there was nothing else on.

So, here I sit and it comes to a scene, won't describe it in case you haven't seen it, but where one of the players quotes a poem. You guessed it! This same poem. So, I searched yet again for the poem and finally found it.

Ironically, it turns out that this poem was used in part during Nelson Mandela's inaugural speech. So, I guess many think that he was the author, but he is not. It was actually a woman. Marianne Williamson. I was so captivated by this poem, and that what are the odds of hearing it twice in one day, that I felt compelled to share it.

Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (See note below about Nelson Mandela)

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”