Whew! So much has happened since I posted last. On April 27, a tornado swept through my town! Houses on my street with trees on top. Houses 2 miles from my home totally destroyed. Subdivisions wiped out. Over 200 people in the state of Alabama dead when the day finally ended! There are no words for the destruction that lies around here. The tornado that hit my subdivision hit about 11:30 am. Power was lost! So we spent the rest of the day with no power and stuck inside a small safe area most all afternoon and evening. What we didn't know at the time was that night a tornado came through and destroyed much of our town's power source. If you ever wonder what a ghost town looks like, I can tell you. No stores open, no fast food restaurants to pull though, no malls to walk in. No traffic lights work. You can't get gas or if you find a station that generates power for a bit you might wait longer than 2 hours to get gas! Ice and candles are quite the top bought items in nearby towns. I learned a lot during that time! We went 8 days without power here at my house. I think we were the first are to lose power and the last to get it back! I've learned you can cook many things on the grill! Entire meals were cooked on our grill! I became very resourceful at using what I had before it ruined! It was exceptionally tiring!! Keeping house during that time was difficult! We were in and out way too much to keep the floors cleaned! The one thing I missed more than power...hot water!! I have shaved my legs in the kitchen sink from water that I heated on the grill! I could go on and on about our experiences during that time! But I am so thankful that our home was not damaged and we are back to normal operations for the most part! But I think we need to have blackouts more often...no TV, no computers, no video games, no telephones...this might become a regular occurrence at my house. The first two days my kids thought they were going to go bezerk! But after that, they settled down and enjoyed life. It was a difficult thing for the marriage! A stressed husband and a weary wife doesn't mesh too well together! But God was good through it all. He offered much protection physically and emotionally!
We worked hard to finish up our schooling so we could make a trip to Arkansas. Had a wonderful trip visiting family! My niece graduated from high school! She was a little flower girl in my wedding almost 17 years ago! She walked all the way down the aisle and right as she got to the front she sat down and started crying! That little baby walked across the stage and received her diploma! I'm so proud of her. She's been dealt a lot in her lifetime but I think she has turned out to be an awesome young lady! I'm anxious to see what God is going to do in her life! Got to spend some time with Zine's family as well! It's such a blessing for Zine to connect to some of his family that he's never known! It was a great time!
Vacation Bible School will be here in one more week! This week I have been consumed with preparations. Directing VBS can sometimes be very tiring work! But it so worth it to be a part of something that you get to see first hand how God works in the little things! And it is especially worth it when I have the opportunity to share Christ and watch children come to know Jesus as their personal Savior! It gives me cold goose bumps just to think about it!
Just to add to my already overflowing plate, I have been cleaning like crazy and organizing like crazy. It has been decided. The house is going on the market. The realtor has been here twice. Tomorrow will be the day that the contract is signed and Monday the for sale sign goes in my yard. Two months for God to sell this house. If He chooses not to sell it, we will begin the process of trying to add on! As I shared with Conner tonight as we were working outside, if this house sells, there will be one thing we know for certain...it will be a God thing. But I have to admit, there's a huge part of me that hopes it doesn't sell! But for some reason, adding on to our current house scares me. I think it's because it is the unknown. I've never done that before! That fear is probably accentuated by the fact that there is so much unknown in my life already! So this is one of those things that I'm putting in God's hands. If my house sells, God will get the glory and my dependence on Him will grow! If my house doesn't sell, I will get to learn to trust God more and do things I've never done before! So I'm waiting to see how God works in this part of our lives!
Whew! I'm tired just from typing all that. It has been a wild and crazy month!
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