calling

You'll find your 'Life's Calling' at the intersection of your gifts & the needs around you that God wired you to care about.

- Rick Warren

storm

HENRYVILLE, Ind. — The National Weather Service says a single, multi-vortex tornado plowed through 49 miles of southern Indiana and northern Kentucky, killing 10 people along its path through New Pekin, Henryville, Marysville and Chelsea before it crossed the Ohio River near Bedford, Kentucky on March 2, 2012.

Today I spent the day in Henryville helping those I could with clean up. Sheet metal resembling tissue paper filled any trees that still stood. Shrubs with insulation blooms and sprinkled with shingle plastic were scattered amongst crumbled brick and shattered glass. This blender storm cut a path through the tall countryside leaving proof of its presence and strength. Television sets. Toilets. Kitchen tables. Lamps. Mattresses. Desks. Toys. Bicycles. Completely trashed and thrown about. Mangled. Mutilated. Broken. Windows and doors blown out of homes. White shirts raked yard debris and swept porches of homes that still set vertical. A property filled with volunteers scoured the ground looking for family photos, heirlooms, and whole pieces of anything. The smell of chainsaw gas, generators and small fires filled the country air. American flags were displayed proudly on what was left of barn beams or tree pieces. Concrete foundations are all that many came home to. A large sheet of plywood placed against a tree for all to see reads "God is still good". The day was beautiful. The sun filled the sky. Smiles replaced tears as complete strangers worked together to make things better.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. - Romans 8:28

no accident

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Anonymous