Whatever Takes Us Away

God can work miracles, I more than believe this to be true.

Yes, God, the One who controls the weather, even the extreme bad weather, works miracles through the bad times. Very early this morning my wife and I experienced extreme weather and God’s awesome hand.

The city sirens sounded, the power was cut, and the wind howled louder than I’ve ever heard; something horrible was about to happen. And it did. The sound of the wind rushing grew louder with each passing moment. As I ran through the house lighting candles I noticed flashing lights out the kitchen window. I looked, but with the power outage I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. Upon closer inspection for our upstairs bedroom I could tell that at least one of our trees had fallen into the street, taking with it a power line. I popped my head out the door once the winds had subsided, only to look in horror as two, three, four trees in our yard had fallen prey to the weather.


Part of the tallest tree had broken from the top, taken out our 20 foot blue spruce, which had landed in the street with the power line. Another tree in the back yard fell towards, but not on the house. But the worst of them was the one directly off the back porch. By far this tree was the largest, not necessarily the tallest, but the girth of this tree is astonishing. Half of the tree had split, falling on our shed, back part of the house and on Tina’s van parked in the driveway. Here is where God’s hand of mercy and blessing were displayed for us. The shed took most of the weight of this might tree, sparing both our roof and Tina’s van. Some minor damage to the back corner of the house, the downspout and a few shingles, but nothing major. Tina’s van has one good sized dent and a few other scratches, but everything works.

My dad and I cleared everything from the shed, van and house this afternoon, but I still have much work to do with clearing the rest of the debris – I should be done clearing by this time next week!

At any rate, I thank God for keeping watch over my four kids, my wife, my house and even me. And I think I’m taking this all pretty well, and I know it’s my faith that is keeping me together; God is amazing, even in the worst of our storms.