Upon return from his international trip, President Obama made good on his word Sunday by visiting tornado victims in Joplin, Missouri.
In the days since the devastating tornado of May 22nd leveled much of Joplin and killed nearly 150 people, the president said, “you have lived the words of Scripture: We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken cast down, but not destroyed.”
Mr. Obama attended a prayer service for the victims and those still missing, lending words of encouragement and a shoulder to cry on for those who are still hurting from the deadly storm. “As the governor said, you have shown the world what it means to love thy neighbor,” Obama told the audience in the Taylor Arts Center on the campus of Missouri Southern State University in Joplin. “You’ve banded together. You’ve come to each other’s aid. You’ve demonstrated a simple truth: that amid heartbreak and tragedy, no one is a stranger. Everybody is a brother. Everybody is a sister. We can all love one another.”
