David Crosby 06/23/08
The population around our church is now almost 40 percent of what it was before Hurricane Katrina hit our shores. We consider this great news.The bad news concerns blighted properties. The Lakeview Civic Improvement Association estimates that 1,400 properties remain blighted.All of Lakeview, population 24,000 before the storm, went under water, some of it as deep as 11 feet. Lakeview is the neighborhood into which the breached 17th Street Canal poured its flood waters.More good news-900 homes ...
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David Crosby 06/11/08
"This is Daddy's truck," Hope told me when she was two years old. She was pretending to drive, her little hands barely moving the steering wheel. I reached for the steering wheel. "This is Daddy's truck," she said again, protectively. She loved her Daddy, that was clear to me, and she missed him every hour when he was away.Fathers have a special place in the lives of their children.I spoke of my father last Sunday in the message-the wrestling matches when he pinned me and my four brothers all ...
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