brief reflection on post-hurricane events

Think Again is in the middle of a series on Renovation of the Heart, but I would like to briefly comment on what’s happening concerning the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

• Keep praying


• Send support to an agency like Lutheran Disaster Response
  
• Remember all the other cities and towns affected, as well as New Orleans


• Taking food and necessities from stores with no capability of accepting money- Fine. I understand this. You can always pay them back later.


• Taking advantage of the current events and taking other non-essential items from stores, other people’s houses, etc.- Not fine. An issue of need? No, a character issue. Perhaps an illustration of soul ruin, as we have examined.


• Think of how many people there who are not looting. Let’s have some discussion on why they behaved so well.


• I have no personal experience of what the people in the Gulf are witnessing, thinking, or feeling inside. I was in the Northridge earthquake of 1994, and am from the Northridge area, however, and so I do know a little bit about natural disaster and the aftermath. Jesus was everything. Jesus is everything. As you love him you can love others with a power and energy that is everything.


• Where is God in all of this? See here