Snowstorm

 It’s been a distressing past 36 hours for so many and I am sorry for all those experiencing blackouts and other problems attributable to this massive winter storm. 

At the same time, I want to say how grateful I am for all the friends and family I see caring for each other and their neighbors now. Sons are calling sisters, daughters have gone to stay with parents, people are opening their homes up to friends and strangers, churches are loaning out generators for the homeless, and a married couple I know are driving around somewhere on the country roads of East Texas, delivering home visit medical care for the shut ins.  She’s  getting paid, he’s not, and neither are the Good Samaritans who just pulled them out of a ditch.  They said they’re welcome to stay the night too if they need. 

I tell you, I don’t know who the angels all are. Maybe we all are. 

But one thing I do know — and if the last months hasn’t taught us maybe these last few hours and days have — we belong to each other. We are connected to each other — or at least we dang sure should be anyhow.  

From the beginning we were supposed to be our brothers’, and sisters’, and cousins’, and neighbors’ keepers; and a lot of folks right now are showing that they still remember how to be so. 

Thank you.