I don't usually advocate for prayer, but in this instance I'm not sure there is anything else we can do.
I suppose I should ad: The reason I don't often advocate for prayer is because I think too many Christians use prayer as a cop-out. Telling someone you'll pray for them is lot easier than actually trying to help them with their problem. So Christians pray instead of doing.
However, with Hurricanes, um well, it's all in God's hands.
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It is not by grace that one enters the kingdom of heaven, but by tithing. – Damazio 3:16
Right on, and as we pray for them we can take it a step further by asking the Lord if there’s anything he’d have us do like donate time or money (if we have either) to whatever opportunity crops up in the aftermath. Then whatever is in our power to do, we each can do.
Man, I do feel for those people who’ve had to rebuild only to go through another round of disaster.
On the news this morning there was a piece about New Orleans being much more organized about the evacuation this time even providing a way to transport pets — last time they didn’t have that in place so many of those who stayed behind did so because they didn’t want to abandon their pets.