Crawfishing continues. The price is still $1 a pound as far as I know. The general impression I get when I drive toward Pierre Part and pass the crawfish buying stands, is of not much business. That may not be the reality.
Louisiana’s wetlands are places of unique flora and fauna and serene beauty all year long, but for many naturalists April and May are – and have been for decades – the time when they are at their prime.
The First Great Awakening in the American colonies is often dated 1740-1743. As in other great revivals, the spiritual climate of the churches had reached a low point. Practices like the Half-Way Covenant brought many into church membership without requiring any indication of saving faith.
When the first Acadian exiles began to come to Louisiana, most of them settled along the Mississippi River near what is today the town of St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish.
In departing from God, we follow a progression from a shift of the heart, to a lack of obedience, to turning to substitutes for God. Usually, by the time God gets our attention, we have been going that way for a long time. Just as a divorce begins when a couple gradually grows apart, we don’t suddenly jump away from God.