Carving Out a Place in Life

Hurricane Katrina cut a nasty swath through South Florida, but it was nothing compared to the devastation I'm seeing in New Orleans and southern Mississippi. What a mess!

Such stories of human tragedy seem to be coming more frequently. It wasn't so long since the tsunami rolled through coastal Southeast Asia. Not to mention the hurricanes of last year in Florida, terrible mudslides in California, wildfires in the West, and countless other events of human suffering. And that's not to mention the untold horrors we inflict upon each other.

I was thinking about all the dislocated people. People without homes. People without food or water. People without family, or at least the ability to know if they’re still alive. People without jobs to go back to, or money in the bank, or much of anything with which to rebuild their lives.