As I look outside this morning at my recently cut lawn nice and manicured, the birds singing in the blue sky, I remember losing part of our roof due to Charlie and then watching as Jean finished it off later that season. Water leaking down ceiling fans into your bed, the wife crying and having no power, no phones, trees uprooted, crops ripped off the trees. We lost 10 barns that day at the citrus grove along with 40% of the crop. But once we got beyond ourselves and our problems each one of us realized that we had it easy and how we need to help and pray for those around us who had it worse.
Looking back out the window into the blue sky with not a breeze whisping, I watch my wife play at her computer while my 14 year old goes at another adventure at xbox and once again I realize how precarious our little lifes are in our own private little worlds.
If I have learned anything from the hardships of the last two years it is that material things are not important when your wondering how to feed and protect your family. And that your loved ones are what makes up a house or a home not the building itself.
Life may seem miserable and hopeless in the moment but it is only for a fleeting second, we need to remember to take that next step forward to pick up the pieces and before we know it, there's a blue sky outside the window with nary a breeze blowing...
I think I'm going to go for a walk outside, have great morning...
Sunburst
