By now my husband and our youngest have made it down to near Biloxi, MS for a mission trip to rebuild houses flooded or destroyed by Katrina. This will be my youngest daughter's second trip in as many weeks.
In June, she went with our church's youth group - a group of 35 youth and adults to New Orleans. There each day they donned suits, helmets, gloves and HEPA masks while they hauled out the evidence of what was once the lives of residents. They tore down walls, stripping theses homes to their studs. With many hands, the job was fast. Blessedly - for both the homeowners and the work teams.
I've always been a believer in getting dirty work done quickly. No laboring over the pain of the job.
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