This week has been a little difficult, emotionally... actually that is an understatement as you read on my last post, plus going to the dentist here because I have an infection. Today I went to get some stuff from the store because my friend JM from Chicago is coming. On our way back from home, it was raining... we found ourselves only a couple hundred feet away from our house, but could not get home. There was such a big flood. One house we saw on the way to our house, their windows from the back of the house shattered and then shattered the windows in the front, bringing along the furniture inside the house to the yard. The gates were pushing out due to the pressure of the water. I could only imagine what was happening at my house... I tried to drive in, but couldn't it was too deep to drive through. So I went back got a friend to stay in the car with A and walked to see what the situation was. My neighbor right beside me had water up to my knees in their yard and I didn’t want to walk any closer due to electricity. I took A to my friend’s house, cancelled my study tonight, called people that could help me and started back to the house. As I was leaving, girls from my study decided to come anyway to see if they could help, Praise God. People were pouring buckets out of their yard… but the water had gone down extremely through. So we were able to drive to our driveway… I am not saying this to scare any of you, but to tell you how good God is.
I put down my window because my neighbor was out and she pointed to my house… the wall that runs alongside the house, which is about 10-15 feet high, fell over. My house is in one piece praise God, unlike some houses on this street.
We finally got in the house, me with three, of the girls that showed up from the study with a guy that works maintenance at my work place. People were on their way to help… we walked into much less than I expected. A’s room and our guestroom were okay, but the rest of the house had about 1-2 cm of water/mud. The book shelves showed that the water was about 6 inches high at one point. So we all started mopping… I so wanted everything to be okay before JM came. Praise God for everyone who rushed over to help us and for those who watched A so that I could get the mess cleaned up.
Right now I am typing with my three friends watching “The Proposal” waiting for JM to come. I’m very emotionally tired with all that went on, but so glad that God protected us from the “what could haves”. Praise God we were out of the house.
Lord Thank you.
Please pray for protection and quick fixing of our wall. Please pray for my heart as I am totally okay right now, but I feel that I will digest it at some point and have to deal with all that happened. Crazy… God is good, but it has been crazy. Please just keep praying for us, for whatever comes to mind.
**I was very sad when I wanted to take pictures of the house and the mess it was, but remembered it's in my purse that was stolen. :( **
