We need your prayers and support

As all of you know, New Orleans and the Louisiana Coast are under threat of another major storm.  Katrina, three years ago to the day, blasted us as a Category 3.  Gustav, making its way to the Gulf, looks as if it will be at least a Cat 3 as well.  As one news story, just aired, demonstrated, many here are still trying to overcome Katrina, and are scared to death.

One woman, just interviewed, and just now getting out of a trailer which she has lived in for 3 years post-Katrina, said, “I don’t know if I can handle another blow.”  Many feel that way.  Unless you live here, or have served here in the aftermath of Katrina, you cannot begin to understand how that storm altered all of our lives here.  Still today, in every coffee shop, health club, workplace, and playground, everyone demarcates their lives around the storm.  Still today, every day, you hear conversations peppered with the phrase, “Since the storm…”.

The point is that all of us here remember, feel, and process Katrina as if it happened yesterday.  Now, a day later, we are facing another “big one”.  As with Katrina, should Gustav hit, many lives will be altered and many will need help.  Pray for all of us in Louisiana that God would bring us tremendous grace.  If you are at relative peace in your life and geographic region, remember, statistically speaking 9 out of 10 Americans live in areas where they are open to disaster (tornado, flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, etc.).  We are all open to the same realities of life.

God will, no doubt, use His people to do great things in the aftermath of this approaching storm.  And, wherever it hits, stories of grace, mercy, generosity, and healing will play out.  God always works amidst disaster.

Ironically, scheduled months ago, I will be taping a television program this coming week (provided I can get a flight out of town) which will feature my book Soul Storm (soulstormsite.com).  The interview will focus on how God worked amidst Katrina and how He works in the lives of anyone who experiences disaster of any sort.  I will do that interview with a fresh sense of the need we all have for God’s tangible touch amidst life’s tough realities.  Please, pray for me as I attempt to encourage many through the show.  And more critically, pray for God’s grace and goodness to be demonstrated in the lives of many as this storm makes its way to land.

As always, we appreciate you prayers, financial support and your cheer-leading our cause.

Grace amidst the storms,

Bruce Smith

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