People asked me last year why I would "waste" a weeks vacation to go off and help strangers in New Orleans, and this year they are beside themselves that I would return. I usually ask them when the last time it was that any one of them had done something for nothing for someone. Then I ask them what they would do if they were forced to live in a small camper. I remind them that it has been YEARS that thousands of families have been doing it!
We actually lived in a trailer for a month or so when we were waiting to move into a house a number of years ago. We were always getting in each other's way, and going totally stir crazy with no place to go. I can still see the trailer at the site we worked at last year, with Lester and his Mom's entire life stored away in a 20 foot trailer. I count it a privilege to go back to serve a stranger or two again, and try to bring a little hope to those that are waiting to get a new start!
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