Homeless

I got a small taste this week of what it must feel like to be without a home.  Greenville was ravaged last night by a thunderstorm/snow storm/freezing rain storm.  The whole city was left without power and heat, and the temperature dropped as the rain continued to fall.  This weekend, temperatures are supposed to drop below zero, with windchills as low as 30 below.

But there’s more than just being cold.  There’s the knowledge that if the situation doesn’t improve, there’s nowhere else to go.  Friends?  Family?  They’re without power too.  The problem only worsens when you try to take care of everyone you care about.  Hotels in the area are putting up a lot of people, but not all of us have an extra couple hundred dollars to go wait the storm out.

Perhaps such an event will give us all a little more compassion toward those in our community who are without home and heat not for just a weekend, but every morning they wake up, and every night when they go to sleep.  It is, after all, the Lord’s work to care for these downtrodden in their day of misery.  May God empower each of us to do something to help someone!