One Thing (among many) that I Love About the Church

Ward members helping at my brother's house in Houston--post Hurricane Ike.
What one of the trees looked like when they were done with it.
The pile of debris from my brother's property, waiting by the street for pick-up.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, my brother, Ben, and his family recently evacuated their home as Hurricane Ike approached the area. And, as I mentioned before, their home escaped serious damage. As I have been checking his blog for updates, he has described all of their activities and adventures during the recovery process. So I have a confession to make. I feel kind of silly about it, but I found myself in tears as I read about all the people in his ward coming to help them clear all the branches out of their trees and off their roof and out of their yard and their neighbor's yard. As his family, we would like to be there to help. But we couldn't. But we didn't have to worry because his church family took care of him. And then, of course, Ben went to help others at their houses. Can I say how much I love this aspect of being a member of the church? My own family has been the recipients of countless amounts of service through the years from our church family. Hopefully we've given at least a little bit of that back to others. For now all I can say is a great big "Thank you!" to all those people I don't even know in Texas.