Flood-Water Truth

The unprecedented rainfall caused by Hurricane Harvey has caused flooding of epic proportions.  The economic loss is expected to be in the tens of billions of dollars, the displacement of families will be measured in years, and while Huston will eventually recover, some will never make it back.  Some died in the floods, others were decimated to the point that there is nothing left and no way to return.

The tragedy Harvey rained upon Huston is truly unmeasurable in terms of family impact, job loss, personal property loss, real property loss, et al.  But, in the middle of all the loss, there was something precious gained: the truth about the American Spirit.

While the media has been engineering a picture of a divided America in which white and black have little but disdain for each other, the flood water images flowing across the airwaves and the Internet displayed a united America, where the color of skin had no bearing on who helped whom.

Folks of all color were streaming into the Huston area brining food and supplies, pulling boats and coming prepared to enter into the flood waters to rescue those who were trapped by the deluge.  The color of the rescuers and the color of the rescued was of no consequence.  People were helping people.  There is a flood-water truth that Americans, across the board, are decent and caring, willing to sacrifice for others they don't even know and whose color is not their own.

I know that there are Caucasian knot heads and African American knot heads.  Stupid comes in all colors.  Hate and fear reside in the hearts of the ignorant and the godless.  There will be the radical KKK, NAZI, FATIMA, BLM and whatever initialized race-baiting, violence-spreading, culture-dividing knot-headed groups there might be, but the vast majority of Americans love their country and their countrymen.

The media has been actually reporting the news for the past few days.  I wish that would continue, that they would seek to uncover truth rather than exploit the news in a fashion that creates a false narrative of this country.  We have problems as we are human, but we are, by and large, a good people.

We need to hang on to the truth revealed in this tragedy when the media turns its focus again to the minority of people seeking to divide this country.  For truth has a divine power to heal a nation: "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (Jn 8:32).  Jus' Say'n.