Jitterbugging for Jesus

I get all three of the network stations out of New York City, and the city’s Fox station. I’ve been channel surfing the Harvey coverage from up there the last couple of days and nights.

It’s interesting that all the stations have had a lot of film and feel-good stories of all kinds about common folks, from all the proverbial walks of life, from New York and Jersey who survived Sandy, who are down in Texas saving lives and animals in big numbers.

There were other stories of northeastern Sandy survivors having fundraisers or volunteering to assemble and send care kits and packages to the Harvey victims.

I’ve seen a lot of coverage out of New York and Jersey about people of many faith traditions–including Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and others–having prayer vigils and fund-raising or volunteer events, many of them ecumenical.

Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who’s always more blustery than the West Texas wind, was right when he said the people up there would step up and respond to Texas in her time of need in spite of bitter memories about the way certain Texas politicians in Congress betrayed them after Sandy.

That political story certainly wasn’t played up any from what I’ve seen the last couple of days, although Christie certainly got the face time he wanted nationally to blast Ted Cruz shortly after Harvey hit.

And I have to say, Ted Cruz, to his inexcusable shame, does keep lying through his teeth about his and Congress’s response to Sandy.

But I have to say also, as I’ve said many times since Trump rolled down the escalators, that America and Americans have never stopped being the greatest people on earth, warts and all.

Disasters bring out the love and the mettle in Americans and as long as there are Americans, America will be way greater than whatever country is in second place and God bless it.