Mama Always ~ L.A. Brown, Author

For a good portion of friends and family, it has been a very rough couple of weeks, and for some on the East Coast, it's looking to be a rough row to hoe for them, as well. I have friends and family in at least two of the States that are experiencing the wildfires...friends and family have been affected by Hurricane Harvey, and now I have friends and family about to be impacted by Hurricane Irma. To top everything else off, now Hurricane Katia has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Hopefully she will poop out where she is and not cause any trouble. All that to say this... love is being found in the little things. Homes that are being or have been devastated, people losing all of their possessions. Its heartbreaking to watch the news right now, when a person who is covered in soot watches what is left of their home disintegrate with the flames before their eyes. Or another person, on a rescue boat, blanket draped over their shoulders, turns and sees their home totally flooded, only the

I'm going to start straight out of the box with Scripture...just a heads up.                                                            *** Matthew 24: 3-14,32-38 3  Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what  will be  the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” 4  And Jesus answered and said to them:  “Take heed that no one deceives you.   5  For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.   6  And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all [ a ]   these things  must come to pass, but the end is not yet.   7  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, [ b ]  and earthquakes in various places.   8  All these  are  the beginning of sorrows. 9  “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s s

On August 25th, the Gulf Coast of Texas had a deluge of Biblical proportions. Harvey, a category 4 hurricane, took aim and smashed into Rockport, Corpus Christie, and then made it's way north. Fifty counties, and over 150,000 properties were destroyed or severely damaged according to FEMA. Countless numbers have had their homes swamped with muck, water and mold, rendering the home unfit for living. Entire lifetimes have been washed away...rich, poor, black, white, yellow...it didn't discriminate as far as devastation was concerned. Interstate 69, going from downtown Houston toward Kingwood had their concrete barriers moved blocking all lanes, north and south, by the waters that ran over it. Homes that never, ever flooded, did, and on grand proportions. Livestock had to be herded down the middle of a city street...Horses were evacuated from stables by Cypress Creek. Along with the scores of now homeless men, women, and children, were homeless pets. Some left behind, some washe