[dicemets]

I would like to here an answer from our orthodox brothers in US, are there significant changes in the people's spirituality that might trigger some towards God ? I'm sure there are individual cases of people turning to God because of the 9/11 events (just like some probably had their belief in God weakened because of it), but for the most part things have turned out the way people should have expected them too: a momentary superficial "awakening" of spirituality followed by the majority of the awakened people falling back to sleep. America was not vigilant, but was prideful and arrogant, thinking herself impervious to attack. A nightmare woke her up one night; a few minutes later she was resting once again. Perhaps not as sure of herself, yet sleeping without having been (internally) changed much by the nightmare.

The "mixed multitude" wandering in the desert ended up having two make it to the promise land; I hope our own personal wake up call has created more fruit than that. (I wish it would have woken me up more than it did -- I don't exclude myself from the above judgment; but then, I was not trying to judge, only echo what happens every time God intervenes on a large scale, people repent and then after a time most return to their previous state).