Thunderstorm

Hurricane season starts tomorrow and we are in one heck of a thunderstorm right now. WOW! When Louisiana decides to do a storm, it does it big. None of this wimpy stuff like we get in the NW, with clouds slowly forming and whispering to us that that rain will break with maybe some soft thunder and a break of lightning or two. OH NO! Let’s be LOUD and terrifying.
Let’s knock people out of their chairs as they hear and feel the
heavens and earth shaking, quaking and booming.
Let’s start as a beautiful, hot, humid, cloudless day and then
ROAR! BOOM! QUAKE! BOOM!
Let’s SHRIEK and PIERCE people’s ears.
Let’s send a downpour that floods the streets in under an hour.
Let’s send shock and awe with lights so bright,
we command eye contact many yards away from the nearest window.
Let’s scream full sentences of screeching, booming thunder!

Pray for those still in FEMA trailers during the upcoming hurricane season. If this is a “thunderstorm,” I can’t bear to imagine what a “hurricane” would be like, especially in a small, lightweight, unstable trailer.

We’re thankful that we completed this week’s food distribution this morning before the thunderstorm began. It went quite efficient, thanks primarily to Chris’s work in preparing about 120 bags filled with the food and drink donations.

Preparing those bags was just one of many tasks we did last week, while the others were at CMA’s General Council. We redid the bathroom with new shower walls, tiles, molding, toilet seat, and paint. We cleared out and organized the downstairs (food dist. ctr & future sanctuary) to better prepare for distributions, a yard sale next wkd, and teams to come in for continued construction.

We accomplished so much and still enjoyed short, relaxed days. We’d wake up whenever we felt like it, read the Bible, hang out a little, start work around 9:30 or 10, maybe take a Siesta, go back to some work and still finish up around 4:30, or skip the Siesta and call it a day around 3:00. For all but 6 hours with a sitter, our kids were with us too. But if you saw the “before” and “after” pictures of all that we got done, you wouldn’t believe we could have done all of that without long, hard days of work. Last week was a metaphor for me of the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s like the Lord was saying to me, “This is how I designed it, Karen. It’s a picture of Is 40:31, ‘Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.” Amen! May we live our lives like we did last week!