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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

The ongoing news reports and coverage of “Katrina” make clear that this is one of the major natural disasters that the USA has suffered. One’s heart goes out to all those people who not only suffered the horror of living through the wild storm itself, but who now face months of homelessness. It seems that everything has conspired against them—no power, no drinkable water, plus, no homes. Even those who sought refuge in the Superdome are in misery; and when they get out, then what? One lady went back to see her home, found it flattened, all she saw that was hers was one shoe.

 

In all the disasters that have occurred since sin began, the dear Lord and Father of mankind has “remembered mercy” (Hab. 3:2). So must we. Now will come the calls to give to help this disaster—it’s not in Darfur, or Iraq, or Niger, or any other of the Third World countries that so often suffer disasters and famines; it’s in our own wealthy and powerful USA. Let us be merciful.

 

How can any of us think of what we happen to possess as really “ours”? It’s poignant to watch CNN or Fox “cover” the disaster and the suffering, then have to sit through the TV ads for luxury cars, SUVs, et al. The ads were designed before this tragedy, true; but don’t they look dreadfully out of place in this context?

 

So is selfish living “out of place” in this great Day of Atonement in which we live.

Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.

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