Twister

I'm really not good at blogging (as evident by the three blog posts in two weeks.) Most of the time I feel as though I have nothing of interest to write about. But I'm giving it a shot. 

Today a half-mile wide tornado barely missed by brother's house in Windsor where my mom, brother, sister-in-law, and niece and nephew were. The Lord is SO good in his protection. Today was Joe's (my brother's) day off so he was at the house rather than on the road or an hour away in Parker. Lori (his wife) was supposed to be at work but got sick and had to come home early just twenty minutes before the storm literally followed the path that she took from her school in Milliken. (I'm not exaggerating, look at the map.) My mom was literally walking out the front door to run errands in downtown Windsor, which would have put her in the car in the tornado's path, but as she walked out it started raining and she decided she didn't want to get wet so she stayed in. So they were all at the house completely safe, and the tornado barely missed them, which is just totally the Lord's timing. They set up the relief center in the gym across from Joe and Lori's, my mom said that hundreds of families have been coming in all day. She went to drop off some sweatshirts and said the people just look like zombies; there were animal pens set up everywhere for all the pets that are just wandering the streets. This particular natural disaster hit a little too close to home, but I'm just so thankful that they're all okay. 

This does, however, remind me of all the other people who have been affected by the freakish outbreak of natural disasters around the world, and I'm using this blog to challenge myself to pray for these people...

The 5 million left homeless after the earthquake in China.

The 2.5 million survivors of the cyclone in Myanmar. 

The family of a 5-year old girl who was accidentally killed when her teenage brother didn't see her as he backed out of the driveway. 

I really don't mean for this to be a huge downer, but I just wanted to acknowledge that there are people who need prayer. In reality they need a lot more than our prayer, but sometimes that's all we can give and so we should never fail to shower it down on them.