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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Dawn broke yesterday over the Hurricane Katrina Memorial on the Louisiana Gulf Coast.

The Granite Cross was erected in 2006 beside a plaque engraved with the names of 163 people

who lost their lives to the storm in this area. Each year on August 29th, a remembrance ceremony

is held here. I wonder if those who built the memorial and those who made a pilgrimage to it

every year thereafter imagine that another monster storm would come ashore in the same place on the same day.

Hurricane Ida swept ashore near Port Foshone, Louisiana, yesterday afternoon as a devastating

Category 4 hurricane.

With winds of 150 miles per hour, it tied as the state's most powerful storm with Laura from

last year and the last island hurricane of 1856. All of New Orleans is without power

this morning as the storm continues marching northward through Louisiana. It is weakened to a

tropical storm, but life-threatening flash flooding is continuing. The devastation feels personal to me. I was honored earlier this year

to deliver the keynote address for the second time at the Louisiana governor's prayer breakfast.

I have been privileged to pray personally with Governor John Bell Edwards and know the

governor and his wife to be people of deep personal faith.

Many of the religious leaders in the state have become personal friends.

Undoubtedly, you know the frustrating impotence of wanting to help friends and loved ones face suffering beyond our capacity to remedy.

The loss of a spouse, parent or child, a diagnosis of terminal disease,

the collapse of a marriage. There are storms we cannot calm and broken hearts we cannot

mend. When the two collide, what are we to do? What are some biblical ways we can help friends

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