new life after ike

Nita

I loved meeting Nita on Friday!  She is exactly the type of person you would want as your grandmother.  She is extrememly fiesty, young at heart, and full of stories.  She is also the strongest hugger I have met in a long time!  As soon as you arrive at her house, you are greeted with a wonderful hug!  Even if she doesn’t know you, she is very grateful for the help.  She is a very sweet lady.  She has been living in the small travel trailer you can see in the picture from the previous entry.  On Saturday, her family was finally able to move the bed back into her house so she could stay there.  Nita is so grateful; it’s been 11 months since she’s been back into her home.

Saturday she showed me her prized possession after ike.  In her backyard, Nita found a small curled piece of her neighbor’s cactus.  She was excited because the cactus was growing roots.  So Nita planted it and gave it a home with her.  She loves that cactus and loves telling its story.  I think it is symbolic of something good that God can bring out of disaster, that there is new life in spite of the hard times.  Nita reminds me of that.  She is a very beautiful lady.  May God bless her as she moves back into her home and may her house be completely finished soon! 

Nita's cactus