Newsweek has run a follow-up story to it's Hurricane Katrina cover girl - Taphina Jefferson from a year ago. Interesting insight into the life of one of New Orlean's many poor people.
The first question you ask is - how on earth can a single woman have seven babies, and pray tell, how many dads are involved? Unfortunately, that's where we so-called Christians usually end it - with a flippant, judgemental question and nothing more. The bigger question we should ask is - how, why and where did Taphina's life get off-track and what can we do to help?
Let me first confess I did not drive to New Orleans to help, nor did I drive to the Astrodome and bring Taphina and her kids home with me. But, someone should have. This was a truly golden opportunity to help someone that needed food, clothing and shelter - but so much more.
I applaud the Mosaic Center here in Lufkin and so many other groups that have started a local division of the Christian Women's Job Corp. We need to do so much more.
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Thanks for sharing that, Kent. Very touching. Keep the poor on our radar. It is so easy to forget them at the first sight of some shiny doodads in the window at the mall...
Many blessings...
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