Well Hello!
It seems like its been forever since I updated the blogs! With all the crazy Oklahoma weather and then losing power for the past couple days, I haven't had a minute to sit down long enough to get on here. So here's a post to catch you up, and hopefully this week will be much less crazy and I can get back to a somewhat normal routine again.
Tonight is our first night sleeping back at home since Fridays storms came through our area. We are SO happy to be back home and we feel SO grateful that we have a home still standing to come to. The past two weeks have been quite a emotional ride and I will say I am SO ready for the Hot summer weather and I am totally over spring!
I've learned a few lessons after the crazy tornado events we have had here.
#1. We need to buy a storm shelter ASAP! I am grateful that my parents have a safe room, but I've realized after the Moore tornado on the 20th that I might not always have time to run across town to my moms(by the time we made it to my moms through traffic the tornado was already on the ground 3 miles from my house!)
#2: I will be getting better insurance
#3: I will NEVER listen to my husband and let him stay at work on a day when they have the whole city shut down by 4:00, and are live streaming waiting for big tornadoes to come barreling through the city. He is pretty stubborn sometimes, and Friday he was one of the crazies out driving in between tornadoes trying to find a place to take shelter, it was 10:00 before he finally made it home and it was a long evening of me not knowing where he was or if he was okay. At first he said he was at work and there was a shelter, so I was okay with him staying. Next thing I know the sky is dropping down huge tornadoes left and right, the weather man is going crazy and saying things like "huge wedge tornadoes, multi vortex, killer tornado and may 3rd. I'm seeing things on facebook of people getting sucked off the highway, at that point my husbands last words to me before we got disconnected were "I'm in my truck and headed towards Newcastle, I can see a tornado just north of me over mustang area", then dial tones and busy signals. It was over a hour before I learned that he found a Walmart to take shelter in until it all passed and he was okay (thankfully). I didn't know whether I wanted to hurt him or hug him when he walked in the door, but I went with the hug....and I may have made a few threats if he ever tried that again :)
#4: battery operated fans will come in handy if we ever have to pile in a safe room again, those rooms get HOT, and crying, hot kids are no fun.
#5 and most important: God is in control, and it feels so good knowing that even when I am stressed or overwhelmed, I can turn to him and he comforts and helps me get through it. I'm still learning not to worry about things and that I shouldn't fear, but I'm not perfect and sometimes I do get scared. sometimes I get overwhelmed and caught up in a moment, I've felt like God is so far away and sometimes I lose my cool and fall apart. But that's okay, that just means I'm human and I need Jesus all the more. When I'm weak and suffering he is strong and he uses those hard and scary times to remind me of my weakness and dependence on him. I am not strong enough to handle things on my own, but HE is strong and HE is the one I should turn to in times of hardship, not just the happy times when things are going my way. He continues to pick me back up when I fall and he teaches me new things everyday. He doesn't promise me a easy life that is care free, but he does promise that this life is as bad as it will get for me. One day there will be no more tornadoes, no more death, no more sickness and no more struggles, and in the mean time he is here to help carry me through. I am VERY grateful for that.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all the families who have lost loved ones in the past couple weeks. We are praying for our state and with Gods help we will be able to get through all of this!
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