{Wiggles} When it Rains...

Sometimes it just pours.

{front yard -- power lines dangling over my car}

{back yard -- can't get out back door}

In the last couple of weeks, we've had a lot of rain -- a few too many storms... not just literally, but also emotionally.  Sometimes when it rains, it pours.  

Early Monday morning we woke up to some very LOUD thunder.  Then the electricity went out.  Then it was the loudest noise I've ever heard from my little house -- pounding rain, hail, debris hitting our house, and evidently... trees breaking and power cords ripping.  The electricity going out was what woke us up, then we heard the rest of the noise, grabbed Oscar {our pooch} out of the back room and hunkered down in the bathroom.  We were back there for about 10 minutes before everything began to quiet down.  With candle in hand David went to check out the windows for the all clear.  Little did we know that we wouldn't be able to see out of our back window as we had gotten blocked in by a down tree from the neighbors yard.  Front yard... almost as bad with power lines everywhere, including over my car.  Big limbs strewn across our yard and street.

Miraculously, our house and our cars were not damaged.  The tree in the backyard fell perfectly between our house and our shed - not braking a window or harming anything!  Praise the Lord for his graciousness. 

Yesterday's storm seems to all to perfectly match what my life around me has felt like the past week.  But just like the storm around my house that huffed and puffed with all it's might and to no avail harmed my family or the things I hold dear, I know that God will continue to hold me in the palm of His hand as the rest of the storms in my life continue to fade away.

As I wrote in my post yesterday, not knowing what the weather was about to do, "Storms WILL come."  And that they do!  And that they have.  But God is good! And I cling to the hope of his promises.  I look around me and all I see are blessings -- friends with words of encouragements, friends & family praying, friends with chainsaws (who have already removed the tree from our backyard!), a place to stay while our electricity is still out so this pregnant momma can sleep... It is so beautifully clear that I have a loving Savior, and though the rain sometimes does pour, I am not outside of His tender mercy.

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