Congressman loans out his home

I’m not a big fan of a number of Chet Edward’s politics, but I’m a huge fan of this:

The Texas Home of Waco Rep. (and former Belton Rep) Chet Edwards sat unused much of the time.

It doesn’t now. He has turned it over to a family that fled Hurricane Katrina.

“I wouldn’t be able to sleep knowing we had a vacant home in Waco, where there were children of evacuees,”; said Mr. Edwards, an eight-term Democrat whose wife, Lea Ann, suggested loaning out their three-bedroom house since they and their two kids spend the school year in Washington.

(reported in the Dallas Morning News)

Off the Record

I just spent an hour or more talking with my dad about a number of things, including my lack of complacency and enjoyment in my job.
I just read this story from the NY Observer that made me really long for a job that makes an impact.
It’s about the New Orleans paper and the work the staff did to keep their paper running to keep people informed after Hurricane Katrina.

Todays Reading

From Max Lucado:
Great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.
It wasn’t logic that caused Moses to raise his staff on the bank of the Red Sea.
It wasn’t medical research that convinced Naaman to dip seven times in the river.
It wasn’t common sense that caused Paul to abandon law and embrace grace.
And it wasn’t a confident committee that prayed in a small room in Jerusalem for Peter’s release from prison. It was a fearful, desperate, band of backed-into-a-corner believers. It was a church with no options. A congregation of have-nots pleading for help.
And never were they stronger.
At the beginning of every act of faith, there is a seed of fear.

About midnight Peter and Silas were praying and singing songs to God as the other prisoners listened. Acts 16:25