Lessons of Hurricane Katrina

Photo - the typical home hit by Katrina in Waveland, MS - 11/1/06.

The lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina are not the lessons I had originally thought were learned. I had originally thought the lessons learned were:

- buy flood insurance
- don't expect any help from FEMA in disaster situations
- maybe reconsider living below sea level

But I think the lessons learned, at least for me are:

- People do care enough about other people to spend money to spend a week volunteering to hang drywall, gut houses, clean latrines and more for strangers.
- God cares more about your heart and your relationship with Him than He cares about your wordly comfort.
- Even though God cares more about your heart and will do anything to win it, he also loves to give good gifts to his children - gifts such as rescue workers at the right place and time - churches - flowers - good food - hot showers - friends - coffee - the list is never ending. He cares about the little stuff even while He is shouting at the top of His lungs to win your heart.

Prayer request - pray for Kim, Melanie, Ann and all the Campus Crusade workers in New Orleans trying to arrange teams over spring break to gut out over 10,000 houses that still need gutted. They haven't even reached the construction phase yet.