A Community That Prays Together Stay Together

"We rise by lifting others"- Robert Ingersoll

After the tornado happened, my classmates and I were assigned to write stories on the event. The stories had to be unique and one of of a kind. As I thought about topics that can hit to close to home, I decided to write about how people in the community were helping each other out opposed to adding more duress to the situation. You don't kick someone when they're down. At Xavier University of Louisiana, the ultimate purpose of the University is to contribute to the promotion of a more just and humane society by preparing its students to assume roles of leadership and service in a global society.

As a student that is heavily involved on campus, it was only right to incorporate what I've been doing on campus into the community.

On Sunday, I woke up early and put on some old clothes. I drove to the East and I began to help families who needed assistance. The community was barren. Roofs were torn off of houses, cars were flipped upside down in the garage, and whole houses were ripped apart frame by frame. What made this worse was that it only affected certain parts of the neighborhood.

But when there is rain, there will also be a rainbow to soon follow it and that rainbow was the multiple volunteers who came out to assist families. Whether it be by feeding people who haven't had a hot meal or people who assisted families who needed help removing debris, there were people willing to help.

My experience with this situation was eye opening. It showed me that no one should take things for granted and that we, as a city, need to stop committing acts of violence because it doesn't benefit anyone. We rise by lifting others and we should continue to lift the victims of the tornado so that the city can be as strong as ever.

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