Thanks for your replies. I asked this question in a 12 step chat last night, and this girl replied that she blames mother nature on events like the hurricane, not God. That clicked for me, I had to take it away from myself. I can't say that I don't give a crap what happens to others as long as I stay sober, as some of the people in chat were saying. After she said that, I remembered that we basically create our God, that our higher power is something with qualities we'd want in a friend. So I was able to see my higher power who I chose to call God wheeping right along with the rest of us. The only way for me to look at is is that my God didn't have it in His plan for any of those people to suffer the way they did, that there are some things even my God can't control, as far as nature goes. I had forgotten that my God is of my understanding!! Duh, He's a custom guy that I built! Haha. I guess I can even kinda see what they mean by, as long as I stay sober, it doesn't matter what God does with everyone else, because my God is my God, not my sponsers, not yours, not the people of New Orleans. He's mine and mine alone. I've said in meetings that I picture all our higher powers sitting in the empty chairs, and when the room is full, that they're all lined up along the walls, haha! I need to apply that thought in events like this. Like all the higher powers get together sometimes to discuss our prayers for each other. =) Hey, whatever works right?

~Rayna