Today truly was an amazing day! He has Risen..... yes indeed! The weather could NOT have been more beauTIful! Service was just aww inspiration and quite emotional... with a poignant message in deed. I went to the SS class that I have heard is just incredible and I left there saying "WOAH"! It WAS incredible..... real and SO good all at the same time! Then we had lunch with such wonderful people..... whom do not even know how much this time meant to us... although I told them too! K&C had a super fun egg hunt with some big kids..... hey I am a big kid too! :)
Another thought of the recent events.......
As I saw the tornado and headed straight for the full capacity bathroom with Connor in hand... I prayed to God for the safety of all in my house and also "please do not let me and my family have another one of these moments". Part of me feels selfish in that prayer, but at the same time I do not know anyONE who prays for their home to be hit by a tornado. Today in SS, it was well said...... when you build a home, you do not hope for it to be destroyed.... when a child is born, you do not hope for that child to die before you. These words are SO true... but this morning they were EVEN more true. Do you believe that people are put into your life at specific moments and they speak specific words at specific moments... and you really absorb (not just hear) those words at specific moments? Well, I do believe this....... and today this man said these words at a specific moment when I was in need of hearing those specific words.
He also said something that hit me HARD! If you do NOT grieve when tragedy strikes... then you are not real nor true to yourself and will not heal. This makes sense, I do believe. Also, in order to really grieve you HAVE to digest all of the events that occurred in this tragic situation. Hmm, again... he spoke very specific words to me at that moment for a specific reason. See, my house is fine from this event (not my personally tragedy... others yes), but there was a night when my house was NOT fine. A night when life DID stand still... a night when all I could do/think was "WHAT is happening?" See the events that occurred on Friday in my community were tragic (worse of the family who had loss of lives), but the tragedy continues and WILL for months and longer (to this day, I am hyper sensitive to the smell of fire). While material things CAN be replaced where people canNOT............. there are items very valuable (not in dollar value but worth so much more) that will NEVER be replaced.......... this is HARD to deal with....... THIS is something I know personally..... and my heart ACHES for my community. At the same time, my heart beats for joy with my community and all the people helping. It is said that Friday night at the Red Cross shelter there were only 3, 4 or 10 families needing shelter when over 100 homes were destroyed (plus many, many more w/o power). Hmm, what an amazing community we DO live in....... pulling together to help your neighbors, your friends, your family (blood or otherwise)..... How very fitting during this Holy weekend where we celebrate the resurrection of Christ!!
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