THE PRICE TAG

What have you purchased lately that you looked at the price tag and thought, "I don't know, I really don't think I should buy this. It costs too much." Hey, knock it off!!!! I'm not talkin' about getting a tank of gas again!

This whole 'price tag' thing has been rumbling in my head since last evening.

I watched a National Geographic program last night that reconstructed 9/11. It was very stirring.

They interviewed heroes from that day that I had never heard their stories. Recounted the timeline in detail. They had footage and pictures I had not seen ever before. They had audio transcripts from the FAA and other governmental agencies including the FBI that shed light on the turmoil of that day.

At the end of the program, a senior FBI official made a chilling statement: "Sorry to say, but I'm afraid America will need another 9/11 before it understands the reality of terrorist agendas."

BLEW ME AWAY!

It's one thing to casually read that statement. It is indeed another to see the man and hear him say it after watching the horrors of the day recounted in the program.

PRICE TAG.

Cost.

Commitment to succeed.

Everything you have.

All you got.

For another generation.

These comments have nothing to do with the war, but rather what are you and I committed to seeing happen in our lives and our families and others. Do we have what it takes to pay the price for seeing a different day for our kids, our spouse, our neighbors?

Two men stood out in that well documented program last night. Both men were in the Pentagon. Both military officers. Both ushered out of the building after the plane hit. But as they stood safely on the grass watching the building burn, they both could not help themselves, and they rushed in. They saved a number of more lives, pulling them free from debris and getting them outside. As they were ready to rush in again, the firemen would not allow them to re-enter. They were discussing the option of bull rushing the firemen and bowling them over to get back into the building when the outer wall collapsed. The one officer, a hero, said, "I know for a fact, that if we had gone back in that building, we would have died."

Not once did the two men inquire as to what the pirce tag was to rescue people from a burning building. They just did it.

Maybe the best thing to do sometimes is not calculate the cost before we act, but rather calculate what the cost would have been if we didn't do anything.

MTC!
Mark