After Katrina: Love’s open arms
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Five years ago, hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans as well as other parts of the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas. After the storm hit, Joanne, my wife, and I spent two long, hectic days and nights assisting guests from New Orleans.
Below is a snip from a Christian Science Sentinel article which describes what we did and how we prayed. Feel free to click the link that sends you to the complete article.
Christian Science has taught both Joanne and I that because God’s power and love are always present, we can share this love by rapidly responding with necessary, practical footsteps when there is a human need. We’ve learned that a prayer-filled life moves with both wisdom and compassion. Our story:
After Katrina: Love’s open arms
…Joanne called me immediately. She had experienced three catastrophic hurricanes here on the Texas coast and knew what items would be needed. We shopped for towels, toothpaste and brushes, shampoo and other hygienic items, and headed to the coliseum.
Twelve airplanes and two buses had brought 1,200 hungry, tired and displaced residents to be our guests. Many–if not all–had been pulled by helicopter out of the waters that flooded New Orleans.
As the evacuees arrived at the coliseum, we tried not only to supply their human needs–they had had been wearing the same clothes for the last four or five days, under less than ideal conditions–but also to welcome them spiritually by cherishing the individuality they each have as God’s children. We wanted to see these people not as bedraggled humans, dependent on our community for help, but as sons and daughters of God, safe in His care.
Through our study of Christian Science, Joanne and I are discovering that what brought healing throughout Jesus’ ministry was his understanding of everyone’s spiritual relation to God. Jesus cherished the spiritual nature of everyone he met. He refused to believe God’s spiritual child could be subject to disease, or to degrading, harmful, material conditions.
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