Thursday, June 5, 2008
~A DaY oUt oF tHe OrDiNaRy!~
Today was a very busy for our group like Bekah explained earlier. our group has just really gotten close with Eunice and Alvin it is like we are family. Brenna and i both agree that we don't want to leave NOLA.(new orleans Louisiana). The weather is well in the 90's every work day, and the humitity is very high. Tomorrow is our last work day and it is going to be very difficult to leave the couple that we have been helping. It is like we are leaving our project unfinished and that is not what we want we want to be there for the final outcome. it is just going to be hard. our group had a separate get together tonight to do satin hands that Eunice brought for us.( see sarah i even get mary kay when i am gone!! love you) and to eat our bars from our neighbor which were delicious. we are not sure how to deal with all that is going on it isn't quite sinking in yet that what we are doing will make an everlasting impact on their lives and ours as well. the couple has so much hope and faith in our group. tonight in my (ciara) small group we were discussing the fact that when you see this stuff on tv it doesn't really sink in. cause most things that you see on tv is fake but watching from our tv's seeing people rescued from their roof tops wasn't reality to me or sara, clint, or alex. but now listening to what they had to say from there expirience made it so real and so unforgetable. The couple was first going to try to go to the superdome for protection but they walked down not even a block with water emerging to their shoulders. so then they knew that they had to turn around and that is when they seeked help from their neighbors. so hearing all about there journey was just an emotional rollar coaster. i didn't know how to take it but God figures out what to do with it. Tonight instead of going to the jackson square we went to see the lower ninth ward which was an eye opening expirience for all of us. it was the place that got the most damage and destruction. It is also where the leeves broke. When we were riding around we saw this little boy who couldn't have been older then 6 who was the only one around in our sight started to make a gesture towards the bus for us to honk our horn and imediately when we saw it we told the bus driver to honk and it made our day and watching the boy smile from a distance. Brenna and I were having a conversation about all the kids that suffered through the storm and those that didn't make it. taking a step back and realizing that it made such a drastic change in their lives the fact that they were helpless. most probably couldnt swim so just thinking about that really made us think about the kids that we see and watch everyday in our lives. and the fact that our kids are our future and that we need to cherish them and watch over them always. i don't want to write a novel but today was just an amazing day after seeing the distruction and enjoying the company of Eunice and Alvin. we had devotions and debriefed our day ken left us with a quote that moved us. "Life for these people is not a disaster any more it is their way of life now."
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I hate to tell you but one of my prayers has been that God would break your hearts with the plight of these people. I seems like that is what has happened. That you see them as individuals and real people with lives just like ours. It is so sad that we are the richest nation in the world and our own people are living like this. When the group went to Honduras it was amazing to us how they lived and that each day was such a struggle. It broke are hearts when Jenna called and said " Dad, this is worse than Honduras!" She spoke of people living in tents and shacks. In filth and appalling conditions. What a sad statement about all of us that we are able to put their suffering out of our minds as we go about business as usual. Ciara is right that the people you help will be changed forever, I hope each and everyone of you are too. As we pray about where we go and what we do from here, let's ask for direction and for leadership in government with a compasionate heart. In Christ, The Remillard's
It must be incredibly hard to see how most people in the world live. It's one thing to see people in other countries, but when it is our own country, with all its bounty and resources, that makes it doubly difficult. I trust that this experience for you and for those of us at home who hear from you will be changed in such a way that we not only recognize the many blessings that God bestows on us but also the responsibility which God has mandated us with to serve the poor, the under-served, the homeless, the downtrodden, and the impoverished. I trust that this experience transforms us into people of God who will become righteously and passionately angry at a world where too few have so much and too many have so little. And it is not just the New Orleans that poses this mission field but it is also in our own back yards. Let our eyes be opened to what God would have us do, let us do with courage what God asks of us, and let us act on our faith and beliefs and not on our own fears.
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