Archive Entry #16: September 15, 2005

Posted on August 29, 2014.

Nine years ago today (as we post today’s archive entry) Hurricane Katrina tore into the Gulf Coast causing massive death and destruction: more than 1,800 people died; damage estimates topped $100 billion.

We learned many lessons from that tragic season, lessons that have strengthened our national capacity to respond to future natural and other disasters. But at the time we published our September 2005 church newsletter, things weren’t so encouraging; back then it was hard to imagine a path to full recovery.

Such is the pessimism you will discover in the opening paragraphs of today’s archive entry, the column I wrote just more than two weeks after the storm.

Hurricanes keep coming, of course – but not often of the kind with wind and rain forged in massive storm cloud formations. May today’s entry bless you when you pass through your life’s next storm.

 

 

 

 

COMING NEXT: The “youngest” archive entry you’ll read until April of next year: From October 2013, a description of one of the most important spiritual truths I have ever learned. Find it HERE.