Yesterday started a very difficult day that lead most of us to do some soul searching. A 46 year old man named Lance vonUhde stop at our construction site and said he wanted us to know that the house we were working on had been home to a drug distributor. He knew this because his house across the street (as he found out after Katrina) had a drug dealer who's wife was NO police women. He explained in great detail with much authority and knowledge the corruption within the political system in New Orleans and the problems most people are facing. Lance is a homeower of 10 rental home with 6 almost completed, he runs the family business, a florist shop but it is still not up and running yet. He is single taking care of his 80 year old mother, Alice, who is blind. This man is broken and disheartened even with the church. Two (2) of the prayer bears were given to him, one for him and one for his mother. He asked that we pray for him, his mother and his mother's dog who just suffer a stroke (the dog). They are still living in a FEMA trailer since he has been restoring his rental properties for income. After Lance left it was difficult to put muscle into our work. As Ed said, "It took the wind out of my sails."

Today we'll work to do the tasks at hand and look for God in our work.