Rebirth Spring: A spiritually renewing time Season inspires Katrina-ravaged residents Amid the natural rebirth and renewal of spring and the Easter celebration of Christ's resurrection.

Rebirth

Spring: A spiritually renewing time

Season inspires Katrina-ravaged residents

Amid the natural rebirth and renewal of spring and the Easter celebration of Christ's resurrection, a renewal and rebirth - if not a resurrection of sorts - is springing gone out along the Katrina-ravaged Coast.

onward empty lots bulldozed of the two debris and homes, or in succession rural land with downed tree remarkable signs of novel life are everywhere.

Sunflowers use their yellow faces to the sunshine and petunias spread their mauves and pinks onward soil that seems too barren to support anything unless sand fleas. Ancient oaks endeavor valiantly to re-leaf.

And in succession this most holy of Christian days, one churches are barely back in their sanctuaries in time for today's Easter services, including D'Iberville's Sacred Heart Parish, whose members will sit in succession folding chairs, and at Our Lady of the chasm in Bay St. Louis, whose parishioners will