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In the aftermath of the disaster that is known simply as "Hurricane Katrina", there are so many questions that weigh on all of our minds.  New Orleans is flooded with sewage and waste now spreading its fingers over that city.  People were trapped in what was supposed to be a "shelter"…a safe place.  But with no electricity and no running water, they turned on each other, creating a place that was anything but safe.  Unthinkable crimes were committed.  Looting was widespread.  Why was decency the first thing to go when it was needed the most?  What does that say about humanity? 

But the relief efforts in the last few days buoy my confidence in us as a people.  So many giving so much…wanting to help, wanting to save, wanting to contribute. 

What will happen to these thousands of people who have lost their homes, their neighborhoods, their families, their pets, their jobs, their belongings, their friends, their livelihoods, their life as they knew it?  Where will they go?  Can your rebuild a place that is so devastated?  Do you want to? 

After a week of watching this I felt empty and my heart began to close off to it.  I couldn’t get my brain around it.  I felt overwhelmed and numb to it.  It’s too much…  But after watching the individual stories and hearing the interviews with families, I begin to realize that these are children of our Heavenly Father, and He loves them.  Each having a story, each having a family, each having a future, however unknown the road.  I can’t solve any problems, or relieve mass suffering, but I can open my heart and love or care for an individual.  I can try to relieve the suffering of a few by giving what I can.  I can pray for them.  It’s not much, but it’s better than nothing at all.