A year has now gone by and those of us who live and work outside the Northeast have gotten on with our lives. After all, isn’t that what you are supposed to do when you face a tragedy or a great loss—go on! But will we ever be able to simply go on? Something changed that September day that will never simply go away.

We now know that we are vulnerable. We now know that the threats of terror are no longer a half a world away. We now know things change — and not always for the better. Will the stock market ever recover? We now know that evil exists. Can that person sitting next to us on the plane be trusted? Things are different now.

So the question is, how can we live triumphantly in a terror stricken world? Perhaps a prisoner of war by the name of Paul can help us. In the last chapter of …