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Dear brothers and sisters, as we look to the situation that is around us right now

and we see the breakdown of our norms, our infrastructure, that we're so used to.

And obviously there's a lot of frustration to be had about government breakdown,

about the corruption and fraud that exists within some of the private companies

and just this entire web of corruption that leads to people suffering in the way that it does.

And then there is, of course, looking at the inspiring stories of people coming together.

And as we are reduced to these very basic means of ours,

getting back to certain basics and how we interact with one another.

And so if you think back, many of you lived in the days where it was not uncommon

to go to your neighbor's house to ask for something, to ask for something as simple as sugar and salt.

And obviously we've moved away from that in our lifestyles today because now you can Amazon Prime things.

Now you can order something from your grocery store and let it be delivered to your door.

Now everyone is independent or so we thought because of the means that we now have at our disposal.

And then what did we see happen this week?

Neighborhood groups form people say I'm going to a grocery store.

Can I get you something people checking up on one another neighborhood groups coming together.

And it was really beautiful and inspiring to see and that is how we're meant to be as people.

And we also see this scene of devastation where while some are recovering and getting back to normal to some semblance of normalcy right now,

we got our power back less than 48 hours ago.

Most of us have water in this area at least.

We can get complacent once again.

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