When there is a natural disaster,
there are many questions as to why this wasn’t done or that; many probabilities
of what could or could not be. I have come to realize that there is no
certainty to anything. In dealing with a natural disaster, one is dealing with
the unknown. Of course, the unknown can attribute to the fears that the average
person has to address in their lives especially if they have never been in a
natural disaster. The interesting part of all of this, each experience is
different.
Houston is water logged this
morning. The town that I have spent most of my life in is very wet. My daughter
and her family as well as her in-laws were forcibly evacuated. Several of my
friends left the city before evacuation. Several other friends and their
families suffered damage to their homes. All of this is attributed to the
natural disaster called Hurricane Harvey. It made land fall below us in a small
coastal town called Rockport. There was a tremendous amount of damage done to
that beautiful quaint town. Houston on the other hand is suffering from the sky
opening up and raining on us for more than four days now. It doesn’t look like
it is going to let up anytime soon.
In all of this I have witnessed something
very special. There are no racial issues, there is no one wanting to remove any
statutes, there is not hatred, no political divisions; there is no major wildness
of anyone’s behavior. There are volunteers, first responders, law enforcement, people
helping people. Our governor, mayor, the councils, the staff, the assistants,
have all pulled together to make this process go as smooth as possible. There
is truly love and compassion.
Sometimes it takes something like
a natural disaster to shake everyone up into thinking that the most important
think is protecting life. Property can always be replaced but lives cannot.
Every life we encounter is important. It means something.
The rain is still falling as of Tuesday, August 29th, at 8:54am...
Please keep in prayer for
Houston, Texas and the southern Gulf Coast during this horrible time.
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