Thought For The Day
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Getting It Right
It was five years ago that we were all focused on the disaster called Katrina. I read today the words of a young woman who went to New Orleans in 2006 to work on rebuilding houses. I was reminded again of how often we cling to that which can be so easily lost while ignoring that which can never be lost and brings eternal life in the process. Here are her words – But as I threw out big-screen televisions, expensive electronics, and heirlooms I learned that material things do not truly matter. Saving your family does. Driving through New Orleans even one year after Hurricane Katrina, I saw battered…