You may have heard about the tornadoes that hit Alabama and Georgia last week. As I was living my normal life of work, exercise (believe it or not), eating, and sleeping, 200 miles away in Georgia, my sister, her oldest son, his wife and four young children were hunkered down in a bathtub as the house shook so hard that it set off the alarm clock while a tornado ripped through their yard. The next morning, they said that the landscape had changed. Trees that had stood longer that I've been alive were broken like matchsticks. There were trees through the son's roof and neighbor's roofs up and down the street (although surrounded by broken trees, my sister's house, which they had all sought shelter in, was miraculously untouched). The mailbox was gone. Trampoline probably sailed like a Frisbee for miles, as the storm destroyed houses, schools, and disrupted peoples lives all around. Kevin's daughter's experience was not as close, but a tornado touched down only a few miles from her house in the series of storm's which wrecked havoc across the state.
The good news for us personally is that all of our family ended up safe. You can repair a house and replace a mailbox, but you can't replace family. We thank God for protecting the lives of our family and friends and ask him to comfort all that did loose family and friends during these horrific storms.
The landscape changed for all those affected by the storms and puts our future trip into a different perspective than before. When the trees blow down, it gives you a clarity and depth of vision you did not have before. Regardless of the pain, appreciate the vision after the storm, with all of it's changes. It will help you to see what is valuable and what is temporary. Make the best of a Landscape Changing Event.
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