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Their deteriorating, now unfamiliar, homes, Kerillas, Texas, avoiding devastating floods earlier this month, demanding confidence in front of the tragedy as the community reconstructs its livelihood together.
“We can’t measure the support that we are just allowing someone to cry on our shoulders,” said the Corps Officer for the Salvation Army in Captain Juan Gomez, III, Texarkana. “This is not something I can measure for some people.”
The debris is seen blocking a roadway after a devastating floods in Kerville, Texas. (Ashton Bolton)
Last Friday, Gomez received a call asking if he could get away from his duties in Texakana, more than 460 miles to support those in Kerville. Without thinking, he agreed and temporarily served as an emotional care officer, supporting the remaining people.
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“We are talking about the loss of life, we are talking about the loss of homes. So these are people who need to find a new ideal, their everyday life has been completely interrupted,” he said.
It is difficult to label it as a more natural disaster when it is much more than that, as it does not begin to encounter heart -breaking families through Kerville. One of those families is Bolton.
A quilt was found in Carville, Texas after broad floods. (Ashton Bolton)
Bud Bolton, a resident of Kerville, lost his house. However, it was not until he was washing his fellow neighbors, until he began to choke on his words, opposing his tears, tried to proceed them in a Fox season report.
Licensed marriage and family physician Kenneth Howard explained how trauma reactions may vary. Families that lose a child will have a different mourning process than those who lose their home or car. However, belief allows one to improve their day a bit.
“Some people have flexibility that will allow them to anchor in a belief in a community,” he said. “They are going in the weather, when people have none of those revival, and they are going to suffer.”
Howard said access to trained professionals, especially in trauma-centered methods such as EMDR, can also reduce the risk of PTSD. Furthermore, as a Christian, he emphasized that organizations with a religious approach, such as Salvens Army, would form a strong “mutual relationship” and lead communities to heal through their trauma.
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After the floods in Kerville, Texas, a neon colored bracelet was read after reading “Jesus Loves Me”. (Ashton Bolton)
Bud Bolton’s son, Ashton, reflecting on tangible relations that are providing those in medical and religious outlets in Kerville and how they are interconnected.
“I think it is good that we doctors are reaching us, but I believe all this lives within us and our spirituality and is able to handle our problems to the good God,” said Ashton.
Ashton said that he feels that if we try to fight our problems alone, then we are not getting anywhere. Just having a shoulder to cry to leave the weight of sorrow leads to a long way. For him, it was all a chat with a distant relative and a throat.
“He did not allow me to bear the burden that I got. He did not allow me to do so,” Ashton said.
A white car is seen upside down after a broad flood in Kerville, Texas. (Ashton Bolton)
Gomez may be related to Ashton, as he is experiencing it.
In August 1999, Hurricane Brett captured Texas, cultivating the winds that reached 194 miles per hour and caused a $ 15 million damage. The 16 -year -old Gomez saw that destruction on his community. When his grandmother encouraged him to reach for support, this was his first conversation with an organization such as the Salvation Army.
Gomez was surprised as he was introduced into the world of public service. They hope “how are you doing?” A half-incomplete question that seems impossible to answer after a devastating disaster. But that question was never mentioned. Instead, he joined with a reality that inspired him to be strong.
He said, “He gave me the support that I needed to know that I could still keep the value in my day and to make it in the next part of my life and to pursue it,” he said. At the age of sixteen, I knew what to serve. ,
Today, he applies that text and uses philosophy that there is no blanket solution for grief. While some people may require a two -minute interaction, others may need 20. He wants to meet people at the root of his pain, not with the answer, but with the appearance.
A ruined building is seen behind a pile of debris after excessive floods in Texas. (Ashton Bolton)
Gomez said, “What we are trying to do is sure that at the moment, we are trying to provide some relief and some efforts because at the end of the day, we understand that they still understand that they still have to go home what they are calling home now and whatever is their new ideal,” Gomez said.
Ashton understands this and sees the ability to see that it can be on the current state of Kevilla.
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“I mean, we just need hospitality between each other and generosity, and it is almost this,” he said. “We all need to be a family.”
Howard explained this feeling in a word: Shalom. Bending in a more traditional Hebrew path, it brings a specific type of peace that is deeply connected to God and himself, but also to the people around us.
“In the time of trauma when the shawl breaks, when the relationship breaks down, when people are no longer connected to such that they were, we are suffering,” he said. That communal piece, the piece of the community, that belief piece allows us to live because God made us to live, is deeply connected. ,
