Fay, oh Fay, please go away!

The photo you see is our bedroom, and due to a bad back, I have been seen here a lot lately! Read on........


Well, we have had an interesting week-end. And we, so far, have been among the fortunate. We have had no loss of power and no flooding. Our house stands pretty high. We have a rain gauge, and it holds five inches. It has been emptied four times now and there is another 2 inches in it today. I am ready for the rain to stop for a good long while, because everything needs time to drink in the water. However, the bands of rain keep flowing through, literally. I have not been out with our camera, but I can tell you a little dry stream bed two houses from us ran like the Colorado, whitewater and all.

Still, we were able to get out intermittently. Daughter and I went to see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and really enjoyed it. We had seen number one together, so we had to take in the second one also! The theatre began to drip from the ceiling while we were there, and I kept wondering the whole time if that roaring sound I heard was from the action movie in the next door theatre, or if it was happening outside. I am such a worrier.....

Oh, how hurricane season can get tiring, 6 months of each year! Prayer and reading my Bible really helped me in the more worrisome moments. And we were able to get out and drive around a little, seeing the trees down (and neighbors out in ponchos talking in groups), getting to church (to see a tarp on the front door), and having dinner out with daughter and her family last night at Ted's Montana Grill (where one of our cars did not start right away after dinner). Blessings exist among the struggles, and I ask God to help me focus on them and let the rest go.

Life lessons never go away! I am 59 and still just beginning to learn to trust in God and lean into him. I get such a feeling of peace when I do that without question. The last weeks have been full of challenges. Son-in-law had a kidney stone, which required a middle of the night drive to get him at a Christian camp in the country. I was in bed for nearly a week with severe back pain. And then we had 22 inches of rain.......but we had electricity, no leaks, a full fridge, books to read and plenty of home projects. Son-in-law came through just fine and passed the nasty old stone. And this week, we find out if the new little one on the way is a boy or girl! Julia and Scott go to the doctor Wednesday.......and among all of these life experiences, Abigail started school and is having a wonderful time. I think she has already made another leap into growing up.

God blesses us so abundantly with gifts and lessons to learn from Him. If anyone out there is reading this blog, and doubts the love of God, or the existence of Him, I say this. Open your heart. Read His word with an open mind. He has given us the gift of choice, and wants us to choose Him willingly. He is there.