Katrina

This has been such a horrible catastrophe for our country. I can't even imagine what these people are going through. I keep praying for them and weeping as I read the stories. We don't have television in our home, DVD's yes, T.V. no, so the only info I am getting is online. I want to help but don't where to do it. It is difficult when my bank balance is $11 and we are all the way across the country, but I know that these people need so much. I have heard from my mother that the local Red Cross turned people away that brought clothing and blankets saying that they would only accept money. This upset me because these people NEED clothes, they NEED blankets, they NEED everything.

HSLDA is trying to organize help for homeschooling families, and I hope to be able to offer help there, but I cannot offer nearly as much as I would like to.

But, I CAN pray. I CAN pray for the people that I am reading about. I can pray for safety and healing and salvation. I can pray for those mothers that lost their babies to be healed and not end up bitter women. I can pray for the man who kept promising his mother in the nursing home that he was coming and then was unable to get to her until after she drowned, for healing. I can pray that our nation would turn to the Lord.

Most of what I am hearing online is about how lawless it is and how slow help is in arriving. Yes, those things are true. But what about the churches nationwide that are scrambling to offer whatever support that they can? But about the thousands of Americans that are donating money, time, clothes even their homes? Yes there has been some horrendous behavior and needed rescue and supplies came late, but let's also see the way many of our citizens are helping.

And yes, I see the big picture. Our nation is going to change. Where these people end up living permanently will change, many won't go back, they won't be able to afford to. And gas, yes it is going up, higher than we have seen it. This will affect the price of EVERYTHING. Our nation will change because of this storm. Could it be judgment? Perhaps. I don't want to think about it one way or another, but whatever the reason this happened, we can turn our focus to the Lord of heaven and earth or onto ourselves. I have run errands since this disaster and the conversations are more about the inconvenience of the price of gas instead of what these poor people are going through. That is sad.