Mississippi

God really showed me some things during spring break.

For the second year I spent my break on the gulf coast doing disaster relief for Katrina victims. I would love to talk about everything I experienced, but I want to say one thing. It's not over.

A lot of people think that after two and a half years there is not as much relief work to be done, but this is far from the truth. Just because a lot of work has already been done and the situation is no longer garnering attention from the media doesn't mean that the problem is solved.

While if you visit the gulf coast you will see businesses and homes and clean streets, but it's what you don't see that tells you how much work is left. Most of the work has moved away from cleaning up to rebuilding and repairing.

Everyday in Mississippi we would drive past a number of open fields. Not that exciting or revealing about the situation, but we soon learned that some of those fields used to be neighborhood and small businesses. There is a drastic difference in conditions from last year to this year, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

Becasue of His grace and for His glory.