I received an e-mail this morning from someone “anonymous”.

It was a comment on my post yesterday about my idea of “what to do after Katrina”.

They were pretty offended.

They called me, “unbelievably offense(ive) and insensitive” and guessed “it would be easy for someone who is as priveleged as you to have a solution that says we should just demolish a city that is so rich in history…” they also said, “i can’t believe that you would call yourself a Christian and be that cold hearted while people are going through crisis.”

That one stung a bit more than the others, though I know that I can’t be ALL THINGS to ALL PEOPLE on my personal blog site! Of course my heart goes out to the thousands that are a part of this tragedy – and I’m sorry for not saying that earlier!

I think it’s a shame that my OPINION would be taken so offensively…

I don’t think anyone is going to take my opinion and “run with it”. I think they will try and rebuild New Orleans.

And for goodness sakes, I believe they NEED to and HAVE to find all survivors and non-survivors – and I’m now praying for “anonymous’ grandfather” who seems to be lost, currently.

It IS easy to have opinions – especially being THIS far away from the tragedy.

Please forgive me for not posting all of my thoughts on Katrina’s aftermath and only the, apparently, “offensive” ones.

By the way, New Orleans mayor is Mr. Ray Nagin, and apparently he’s calmed down a bit after talking one-on-one with President Bush.

After a great conversation on the way to Goshen tonight with Jess, we have figured out exactly what needs to happen to New Orleans and any surrounding town for that matter.

Demolish everything left standing.

Yep.

That’s it – whoever thought it would’ve been a good idea to build a city BELOW SEA LEVEL was smoking something.

And as for the Mayor of New Orleans who is complaining that the US Government “hasn’t done enough” and has committed an “atrocity” needs to be reminded that HE IS the mayor of a city with a NASTY poverty level and that it is HIS responsibility as MAYOR to provide a “WAY OUT” if a tragedy should (did) occur.

Oh, and another thing – quit trying to FIX the levies! Don’t they realize that even fixing the levies is only a temporary fix?

Seriously, demolish the entire city of Gomorrah, I mean New Orleans, and help the 500,000 residents to find jobs and new lives elsewhere. Let the city that was built under water STAY under water! Maybe make it a historic landmark where we can scooba-dive!

After a couple hours of work this morning in the office, I headed to Ft. Wayne for a hospital visit. After the visit, I did some Sam’s Club shopping and then had a late-lunch at the Anchor Room Cafe – a Christian bookstore North of town.

The trip home was quite miserable as it warmed up considerably and, if you remember, I have no air conditioning.

When I got back into town, I immediately stopped at Enterprise Rent-a-Car and booked a compact-car for next week’s trip to Grand Rapids. Today was my “let’s see if I could make it without air conditioning” test. I can’t.

I got a crazy deal, though, so I’m pretty happy with that!

Date night tonight. Goshen, here we come.

Tomorrow is the release of Matthew Paul Turner’s book, “Provocative Faith“. Mr. Turner just sent me an e-mail reminding me of that fact!

Remember, I reviewed this book a while back.

I’m pretty sure this is an exact replication of what Italy looks like.

Saw this in the sky a couple night ago and couldn’t help but take a picture.

My little sister heads to Italy sometime tonight, I think while I sleep.

She’s been in Bosnia now for 10 months and is taking a bit of a vacation to Italy and surrounding locations ON HER OWN.

Does this scare anyone else that knows my sister?

Possible scenarios:

01. Sherilyn becomes the queen of Italy.

02. Sherilyn finds her “inner-Italian” and decides to settle down as a gondola-operator.

03. Sherilyn takes it upon herself to let a local pizza shop know that THEIR pizza just isn’t as good as in America.

These and MANY other ideas are making my head spin.

Pray for Sher this week.

And visit her website: www.sherilynsheets.com