Life in a pile

Today was my first day on the job with The Salvation Army Disaster Relief Team. I was able to visit the town of Greensburg Kansas where a tornado devastated 95% of that community a little over a month ago. What a sad place. The entire town has just been leveled. There's nothing left. It's hard to imagine what it must have looked like prior to May 4th.

The thing that bothered me the most were all the mounds at the curbs in front of where the houses once stood. Just huge hills of junk. But this isn't a junk yard. This is some one's life. It's their son's skateboard, their daughter's doll. It's their neighbors punch bowl they never got around to returning. It's their father's antique table, and every picture and very negative they every took. It's their baby's dedication certificate and his coming home blanket. It's their life. And it's in a pile at the edge of the curb...........along with everyone else's life piles. What a sad metaphor for their life right now.