From The Word Among Us.

"Meditation for Saturday, September 11. Luke 6:43 - 49"



"The planners of the World Trade Center in New York knew something about building on rock.

"When construction began in 1966, they took great pains to set the whole complex on a solid foundation.

"Workers dug down seventy feet to the bedrock to build a seven - story - high foundation wall of reinforced steel and concrete.

"Anchored on this base, the Twin Towers were about as firmly rooted as buildings can get.

"But nine years ago today, those solid towers came down in a cataclysm dust and debris ...

"...As we remember, the Holy Spirit gently invites us to consider a deeply challenging, often avoided reality:

"The world as we know it is passing away.

"None of it -- no matter how solidly based -- can sustain our lives forever.

"This is the truth that Jesus addresses in today's reading, using images from the construction trade he learned from Joseph.

"The house that collapses can stand for everything in life, and in us, that is built on earthly things:

"It will not endure..."