New York Times Dateline: New Orleans, September 2:
They waited, and they waited, and then they waited some more in the 90-degree heat. As many as 5000 people huddled at a highway underpass on Interstate 10, waiting for buses that never arrived to take them away from a storm they could not escape. Babies cried. The sick huddled in the shade in wheelchairs or rested on cots. A few others, less patient, simply started walking west with nowhere to go. [1]
Thousands…going out, not knowing where they are to go, living in tents, looking for the city.
The name "Hebrew" literally means "One Who Wanders." This sermon series out of the book of Hebrews was meant to speak to our journey of faith, a metaphor for our spiritual life. But the faces of "those who wander" have been imprinted on our hearts…