Here's a "wondering":  what if the state, after proclaiming mandatory evacuations, provided bus transportation to safe shelters, ensuring that everyone in the city could get out of town if they wanted to do so?  I'm sure it would be expensive, but hardly more so than what is currently happening.  People who chose to stay in the area would effectively be waiving their "right" to government evacuation after the fact.  A mandatory evacuation would then really be mandatory, and everyone would have the opportunity to obey the state's order...those who chose not to would accept the circumstances.

Even better, what if area churches came down with their busses and rounded up any and all of the poorer folk who have no means to get out? 

I can't help feeling like we (the church) should have done something earlier.  We had days of warning that something awful was going to happen.  I hate to think that we may have forgotten that we are to look out for the widows, orphans, and poor.  Many congregations are now stepping up to the plate and seeking to house and otherwise serve those who have lost everything, and may God bless their service...maybe we can be more proactive next time and offer help during the days before the catastrophe.

James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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Posted by MrsCatherine

Well said! For someone who is new to the blogging community...you are doing quite well!!! :O)

Love and God's Blessings,
Cat

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