I have mentioned Ted Jackson on this blog before. He is a photographer for the New Orleans local newspaper, The Times Picayune. It was at his house that our family spent the lion's share of Independence Day.

While there, he showed us slides of the pictures he took during Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. Some of those, but not all, are on the website that I also referenced earlier on this blog.

One of the pictures is a close-up of a woman crying. Ted told us that the picture was taken at a Sunday worship service at a New Orleans church the Sunday after the hurricane. The words being sung at the time the photo was taken were:

"He gives and takes away. He gives and takes away. My heart will learn to say Lord blessed be your name."

A little different singing those words there and then.