The Rains came down-and the floods came up
Mood:  incredulous
Now Playing: nothing
Topic: On Rain and Shine
It seems like only yesterday that I worked for a man from New Orleans. At that time he told me that the city was built below sea level. In my line of work, as ghastly as it sounds, hurricane season can be quite profitable, and yet looking now at pictures of the horror that is New Orleans the morning after, I can think little of dollar signs. What's a man to say really? How can those of us inland on high ground relate? What is our excuse for not being able to help? You can say you've never made a difference, but chances are you have at sometime. You may say that the little you might give could never make a difference. Give what you can anyway, small termites can wreck a big house if they work together. Thus each of us can take a bite as we can, no matter how small it may be, and together we can watch this tregedy be overcome. Oh, by the way, does anyone remember this? "The wise man built his house upon the rock.....the foolish man built his house upon the sand."

Yes, this house is built on a rock, and yes, it is quite old. It has faced hurricanes for decades and survived them in fine fashion, but let us never forget that building our house on the Rock means more than a solid foundation, it means building our spiritual house on the Rock of God's love, for unless we do, our future is a sure of destruction as that of the houses of New Orleans.