Remembering the Day the World Stood Still

​Today as we reflect upon that somber event which took place twenty years ago, most of us, if not all of us, who were beyond the years of early childhood can recall that fateful day as if it were yesterday.  I was on in my first semester of my first year of seminary at Toronto Baptist Seminary.  I had just left my dorm room and was walking across the parking lot to my first class which was to begin at 9 a.m. eastern time.  I was met in the parking lot by a classmate walking back toward the dorms who informed me that a plane had just hit one of the Twin Towers, so we began heading to my room, which was closest, to turn on the TV and watch the news.  As we stood there watching the first tower burn, we were discussing and wondering out loud if some small plane was not paying attention and crashed into the building.  

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