tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9135156945436269573.post5892542995467343753..comments2023-05-25T04:35:43.597-07:00Comments on Blessings From the Sun Porch: Thanksgiving isn't just in November!Linda the Librarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01213344238331825302noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9135156945436269573.post-33646838824020992682012-05-27T02:35:49.023-07:002012-05-27T02:35:49.023-07:00Thanks for this posting! I have never experienced ...Thanks for this posting! I have never experienced such devestation except for what I have seen on TV. But as I look on those scenes, the same questions and cries fill my heart as well. It doesn't make sense to us...WHY WHY WHY? But in those moments of questioning and confustion and...fear...I am glad that I have the hope in my heart that allows me to thank God in the middle of my fear. This life would be unbearable if not for that hope and the peace it brings to my heart.Linda the Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01213344238331825302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9135156945436269573.post-39291232052342943002012-05-25T05:34:31.807-07:002012-05-25T05:34:31.807-07:00Linda, I visited joplin mo yesterday. My boss took...Linda, I visited joplin mo yesterday. My boss took us to the park that extreme home makeover built for the city. As I touched the monument that had the names of the 160 people that died that day a year ago by just a few days. I felt profound sadness. Then as we walked the park we came on another monument they had made. It was concrete pedestals that imbeded in the top were pieces of debris that they had recovered....a top to a car cigarette lighter, a fork, a key, pieces of broken glass, a door jam possibly from a childs bedroom as I ran my hand over them the 160 and thousands of lives forever became very real. If I had been by myself I would probably have run to my car sobbing. Instead, I shed a few tears as my soul cried out to God....why why ...how tragic...why. in the background was the hospital that is still standing because they have to tear its concrete structure down slowly instead of blowing it up because it sits on a mine shaft. But it looks like a parking garage. Then he drove us through the neighborhoods. We saw the new houses extreme makeover built. Gorgeous, looked slighty odd. A small street of beauty dropped amount devestation. Where a tornado went through and flattens a house while one next door is left. Why? My soul is crying out why? Just shows your life can change in a second.....and so can your perspective...... We go to what used to be a neighborhood. No picking and choosing here...just flat land that has been cleared of debris. Just some concrete foundations, chimneys, driveways. My soul wept bitterly now except it was saying oh My God, Why not more, thank u for your mercy it is a miracle of you that thousands were not killed that day.thank u Jesus!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14110071480445619635noreply@blogger.com