Our modem just lit up - all four buttons are nice and green, and so we are back on the Internet. The phones are still out. I don't care. I was even getting used to not having Internet. It started to feel sort of normal...and I didn't miss it so much after a while. But notice how quickly I sat down to post, and have already checked my email and answered a couple, so maybe I'm not as weaned as I thought.
We closed the shelter this morning because the Red Cross decided to consolidate the folks at one location that was more centralized. I was signed up to work the afternoon shift so I didn't see how many people were there this morning, and how many people were shuffled to the other location. I realized that most of the people that I met I will probably never see again. I hope they are back home and that their power is on, and that maybe in the midst of the nightmare of the past week we were able to give them a little bit of hope, and make life easier for them for the time they were with us. Some people worried that we were being taken advantage of...that maybe people were sticking around when they didn't need to because we were feeding them so well. So what? If you're going to give a cup of cold water, you just give the cup of cold water for goodness sakes. If you're going to take the risk to throw your arms around people, then sometimes you'll get taken advantage of, right? If you worry about that, you'll end up with empty arms.
So we're cleaning the place up after our guests have left, but a mess never looked so good.
2 comments:
I praise God along with you for the wonderful opportunity your church body had to live out Isaiah 58. . ."to provide the poor wanderer with shelter. . . .to spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed. . .then your light will rise in the darkness. . ."
Thank you for spending yourself in your blog also. I always love reading it but have never commented until today. I took the plunge into the blog comment world.
It wasn't so scary after all.
Good job on the comment sis! You and many other people have trepidation about blog commenting. See, it's quite harmless, and it keeps me from feeling like I am talking into the wind. Thanks!
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