Forgiving the powerful people who have harmed American citizens in recent years will require much future reflection and prayer.

In the meantime, the moment calls for acts of generosity, which, by God’s infinite wisdom, can lead us to forgiveness.

On Monday, former President Donald Trump initiated a GoFundMe campaign to help victims of Hurricane Helene. As of early Tuesday morning, the campaign had already raised over $1.9 million, far exceeding its original goal of $1 million.

A big reason that GoFundMe thrived? The former president helped spread word of the relief effort via his social media platform Truth Social.

Earlier on Monday, Trump visited Valdosta, Georgia, where he focused national attention on the catastrophe that has befallen the Southeast.

Moreover, he did not arrive empty-handed.

“Today I have come to Valdosta with large semi-trucks, many of them, filled with relief aid and a tanker truck filled up with gasoline. We have a couple of the big tanker trucks filled up with gasoline, which they can’t get now,” Trump said in a clip posted to the social media platform X.

Trump delivered those supplies to evangelist Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse relief organization.

Here is a clip of the former president greeting volunteers from the organization:

Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida late Thursday evening. While Helene has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, the damage has been catastrophic regardless.

By Saturday, Americans had learned of heavy damage and heartbreaking loss of life across the Southeast and into southern Appalachia, particularly western North Carolina, where massive flooding and landslides washed away roads and left parts of the region isolated from the outside world.

Days later, receding flood waters in Asheville, North Carolina, have finally revealed the extent of the damage.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden, after first insisting that the federal government had done all it could, finally took time away from another of his vacations and made a statement about the disaster on Monday afternoon.

After delivering his statement, Biden sounded irritated by a reporter who asked why the president remained on vacation this weekend.

In fact, in a nearly three-minute clip posted to X, Laura Ingraham of Fox News highlighted the inadequate responses to Helene on the part of both the prickly Biden and the absentee Vice President Kamala Harris.

Of course, we have seen this movie over and over again in the last four years.

Biden and Harris have repeatedly made it clear that they do not prioritize American citizens. The people of Maui, East Palestine and now the Southeast have learned this the hard way. So did the brave men and women who lost their lives during the Biden administration’s utterly disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. And so have Americans in communities that Biden and Harris have flooded with violent illegal immigrants.

As Trump has shown through his extraordinary leadership, however, we must find a way to forget all of those betrayals for the time being and focus on the people who need relief now.

PRAY LIKE YOU’VE NEVER PRAYED IN YOUR LIFE!!!

On the anniversary of the day Israel wept, the FBI is warning Americans that terrorism may come to the United States.

Monday marks one year to the day since Hamas terrorists left parts of southern Israel the scene of death and human atrocities. It also marks one year since Israel launched its campaign to bring down Hamas, a military effort that has since morphed to include Hezbollah to Israel’s north.

The FBI noted that Oct. 7 comes  amid “consistent calls by foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) to their supporters seeking to provoke violence in the West.”

The warning said the anniversary “as well as any further significant escalations in the conflict, may be a motivating factor for violent extremists and hate crime perpetrators to engage in violence or threaten public safety.”

“Over the past year, we have observed violent extremist activity and hate crimes in the United States linked to the conflict,” the warning said.

Police departments in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Philadelphia have all increased patrols, according to CNN.

Last month, the FBI reported that during 2023, it recorded 1,832 hate crimes against Jewish people, up 63 percent from 2022 and the highest ever recorded since data was first collected in 1991, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL noted that hate crimes against Jewish people made up 58 percent of all hate crimes in 2023 and 68 percent of hate crimes where religion was a factor.

“At a time when the Jewish community is still suffering from the sharp rise in antisemitism following Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, the record-high number of anti-Jewish hate crime incidents is unfortunately entirely consistent with the Jewish community’s experience and ADL’s tracking,” Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO, said.“Hate crimes are uniquely harmful, traumatizing both the individual and their community.”

In his column in the New York Post, Michael Goodwin noted how the Hamas attack exposed a darkness in Western society in what he called the “explosion of antisemitism in America and Europe.”

”Just as Israel was caught off guard by the Hamas terrorists, the outpouring of support for those savages on elite college campuses and the streets of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington as well as London and Paris has been a rude awakening of its own,” Goodwin explained.

“It’s as if a venomous snake had been in hiding and suddenly found a chance to emerge and strike,” he wrote.