It’s about thirteen minutes into Thursday, as my clock reads. Tuesday was a special day. I’ll let you decide how to emphasize the word special. My school held a big rally and we all went out into the city to do things. Some people gutted homes, others fixed roofs, and my team prayer walked Uptown. I think they said we ended up walking six miles total, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM. Actually, I got sick at the end, and since I’d had only one bottle of water to drink and nothing to eat all day, I might have been close to a physical shut down. But I lived, and even though I started shaking and couldn’t feel my face, hands, or feet for a few minutes, I’m okay.
As you can see on the map, New Orleans is large. To explain, we walked from Coliseum Park to Audubon Park. My school is up in Gentilly (about where the “y” is in the word “Gentilly”). It’s a nice place, New Orleans. We walked down Prytania Street, which has some of the largest and most beautiful homes in New Orleans. My friend Dirk and his team in the Gentilly/NOEast area had a visit from President Bush, and I think Dirk was proud to pray over him. I guess it’s pretty neat to get that opportunity. I guess it’s good that some of us got to be out in the city working, but I mean, there have been a lot of people out there working without getting all this recognition. My hope and prayer is that we’d do this every day, every week, every month, and every year, not just on that one special day that happened the day before yesterday. Plus, the way I see it, we have a lot more highligher colors to go through before we’re done.
(In writing this, I realized that my good friend Dave got his picture plastered in the news. So here’s Dave. And no, my team in Uptown didn’t have to wear the goofy t-shirts. Read the BP article here.)