St. Paul's chapel

September 2001 to May 2002 - Within days of the attack on the World Trade Center, St. Paul's launched a 24/7 volunteer relief ministry for recovery workers at Ground Zero. Throughout the next eight months, over 14,000 people of every race and religion would work together on 12 hour shifts serving meals, making beds, counseling and praying with firefighters, construction workers, police officers and others. Medical personnel, massage therapists, chiropractors, podiatrists - and even classical musicians - also helped transform the chapel into a sanctuary of hope and healing for 2,000 workers each day.
I can't help but think that the Lord watches over us with a fond sad smile when such things happen. Is it not the perfect example of charity. And Charity is the essence of humanity!

"We must live as true followers of the Christ, with charity toward all, returning good for evil, teaching by example the ways of the Lord, and accomplishing the vast service He has outlined for us." - President Gordon B. Hinckley

Neal A. Maxwell - “Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful, more kind and considerate. Even more, we are to do this in a world which does little to encourage such qualities of character.”