Put not your trust in princes and sons of men

I've been following Steve Waldmans coverage of the Republican Convention. (They're my peeps, if you haven't noticed.) One of his posts yesterday had this quote from Rudy:

"The speech had one fascinating religious moment. Describing the moments after the 9/11 attacks, he said, "Spontaneously, I grabbed the arm of then Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and said to Bernie, 'Thank God George Bush is our President.' And I say it again tonight: Thank God George Bush is our President.""

It remided me of one of my 9/11 memories. I was trying to get home (Mission Doloros neighborhood) from my office in the financial district. While trying to get home I was stuck in a group of people near the Civic Center. A woman short, dreadlocked, black, many piercings was crying and reading her little Bible silently. I said to her "Psalm 46". She looked at me for a moment then turned to that Psalm and read aloud....


Psalms 46
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Al'amoth.

God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear,
though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Selah.
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,
the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her;
she shall not be moved:
God shall help her, and that right early.
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved:
he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
The LORD of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
Come, behold the works of the LORD,
what desolations he hath made in the earth.
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;
he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder;
he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Be still, and know that I am God:
I will be exalted among the heathen,
I will be exalted in the earth.
The LORD of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.

Two score people turned to hear her read and were comforted by the word of God. Blessed is she who readeth.