Ask, seek, and knock. Receive, find, it is opened. - Ed Ditto

The day was experimental. How ready were the Long Beach folks for follow-up visits? Jesus’ volunteers had been there before clearing, cleaning, loving. Today started the going back to see how they were doing, to find out what else they need, to invite them to the assembly, to more directly present Jesus.
Mary, Lisa, and Ed prayed hard before starting. “Father, use us today. Shine through us.” Others were praying, too.
Jesus said, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”
Using a borrowed pass to get across the tracks, the day began with a sobering and unsettling look at the twisted, mangled, uprooted, crushed remains that are what is left of Long Beach south of the tracks. Mary and Lisa had not been there. None of the three will ever be able to erase what they saw. Dan Holder said it best, “Nature doesn’t hurt nature. Nature hurts what man makes.” Mary, Lisa, and Ed can testify that nature hurt the things made with man’s hands here.
The first visit was on Valentine Street – one block north of the tracks. The Work Order said the Lander’s house had been worked on and the yard had been cleared. Roger and his wife were “elderly.” Roger answered the knock with a huge smile. Perhaps the orange shirts ?
In the den, with introductions done, Roger, the Marine, said they had just finished their morning Bible reading and prayer. He said, “Just when you knocked, we finished praying. One thing we prayer for was that God would send some Christian people to talk with us today.”
Ask, seek, and knock. Receive, find, it is opened.

Ed Ditto