Gen Honore, who was comander of the Joint Task Force Katrina likes this prayer, the Prayer of St. Francis.  It seems appropriate today.

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen. 

St. Anna’s is doing a great deal.  They have a mobile medical van and a terrific ministry to the musicians in the French Quarter.  They are on the way to being an instrument of peace.  I think they are doing this for the right reasons.

Sadly it sounds like the streets of Bagdad are safer than New Orleans.