ITS NOT JUST STERN...

I DON'T ONLY LISTEN TO HOWARD STERN

ON XM RADIO, I ALSO LISTEN TO JOEL OSTEEN,

Yep from on end to the other....

and I love both stations equally.

This week has been an Osteen week on my

xm radio. The story I heard two days ago

while listening just touched me to no end.

As told my Joel Osteen:

ON THE DAY OF THE TERRIBLE WORLD TRADE 

CENTER DISASTER, A YOUNG COUPLE WERE ON

THEIR WAY TO THE AIRPORT TO BOARD ONE

OF THE PLANES THAT CRASHED INTO THE 

WORLD TRADE CENTER.

THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY TO VISIT THE

HUSBANDS PARENTS WHO LIVED IN

NEW YORK. ON THEIR WAY,

THEY HAD A FLAT TIRE THAT CAUSED

THEM TO MISS THE FLIGHT.

OF COURSE THEY WERE UPSET THAT

THEY HAD TO POSTPONE THEIR TRIP 

BY A BIT BUT WHEN HEARD OF THE

TRAGEDY BELIEVED ONLY THAT THEIR

LIVES HAD BEEN SPARED BY THE GOD 

THEY SO BELIEVED IN.

THE HUSBANDS PARENTS WERE BESIDE THEMSELVES

UNTIL THEY FINALLY WERE ABLE TO 

SPEAK ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT HIS 

SON HAD MISSED THE FLIGHT.

AFTER MANY TEARS AND "I LOVE YOU'S"

HIS DAD SAID, BECAUSE HE WAS A RETIRED

FIRE FIGHTER, HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO 

THE TRADE CENTERS TO SEE WHERE HE COULD HELP.

THIS WAS BEFORE THE BUILDINGS COLLAPSED.

IT WAS THE LAST TIME THE SON AND FATHER WOULD SPEAK.

THE SON LIVED WITH A HEAVY HEART NOT

ONLY FOR THE WAY HE LOST HIS DAD WHEN

THE BUILDINGS CAME DOWN BUT ALSO,

ALTHOUGH THE SON WAS A VERY FIRM BELIEVER

IN GOD, HIS DAD WAS NOT, HE WAS AN

ATHEIST. THE SON WORRIED ABOUT HIS 

FATHERS SOUL. ABOUT 8 MONTHS LATER,

THERE WAS A KNOCK ON HIS DOOR.

THERE STOOD A YOUNG COUPLE HOLDING A

SMALL BUNDLE OF A BABY BOY IN THEIR ARMS.

THEY ASKED TO COME IN AND ONCE THE SON

FOUND OUT WHO THEY WERE HE GLADLY LET THEM IN.

THE YOUNG MOTHER BEGAN TO TELL THE STORY OF

THE LAST HOURS OF THE SONS DADS LIFE.

THIS MOTHER, EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT AT THE TIME, 

WAS TRYING TO GET DOWN THE STAIRS OF THE

WORLD TRADE CENTER. THE FATHER RAN IN TO 

HER ON THE STAIRS AND DECIDED HE

WOULD MAKE THE WALK ALL THE WAY DOWN

TO SAFETY WITH HER.

AS THEY WALKED, SHE SPOKE OF A GOD SHE

BELIEVED IN, AND THE DAD LISTENED.

WHEN HE GOT HER SAFELY OUT SHE ASKED

HIM IF HE BELIEVED IN GOD.

HE SAID HE DID NOW.

SHE ASKED IF SHE COULD PRAY WITH HIM.

THIS YOUNG MOTHER REASSURED THIS SON

THAT HIS DAD HAD ACCEPTED GOD INTO HIS

LIFE RIGHT BEFORE HE WENT BACK INTO THE 

BUILDING, IT THEN FELL WITH THE BORN 

AGAIN CHRISTIAN INSIDE.

What a story, right, of course, I retell it in my

own words, Joel Osteen probably did a better job but

either story, both bone chilling.

Not done yet,

the young mother places her baby boy into

the son's arms and says to him,

"My son now has your fathers name"

Such a beautiful story following such a tragic 

episode in our world.