Renewed by a Tornado!

Okay, I know, it's been over a month since I blogged...and a month since school got out...what can I say? I've been busier since school got out amazingly! And really nothing that I wanted to blog much on. But something amazing happened last night!

As I was watching TV with the kids, our DVR was interrupted during play of a movie with a tornado warning. So instantly I began watching the weather...good to know that the DVR stops to let you know if there's an emergency! The tornado sirens went off later and we holed up in the basement for awhile til we got an all clear. We were blessed that it was south of Augusta with no real threat...more a precaution than anything.

The tornado got me thinking about Greensburg, and how many people I used to know in Greensburg from a little Baptist church camp "Camp Christy," in Scott City, Kansas, that I went to for 3 years when I was in 5th, 6th and 7th grades! First of all, let me say, I loved camp. It was really the only place that I ever remember feeling utterly and totally accepted as a kid. Maybe that just proves exactly what a dork I actually was, but I fit in there, and didn't anywhere else. So anyway, then I started thinking about why I didn't try to contact anyone I knew after the Greensburg tornado to see if they were okay and that's when I remembered I didn't have facebook last year! So by chance I typed in Greensburg HS, year 1996 (yeah, I'm old) and out of the two people listed I knew one of them! It was a boy that I remember standing at the end of my grandma's driveway waiting on the mailman to deliver a letter from him! It's funny how clear that memory of him is!

Well, I added him as a friend and needless to say suprised him completely! But he remembered me! So anyway we began talking and caught up on who we are now. He thought about seminary for awhile, but decided to go into law instead thinking he could help more people that way, but the fact that both of us are still devoted to God is a true testimony in itself. But after a few hours of conversation, we both realized that God made sure we reconnected last night. He's gone through things the last few years that has made it hard to forgive some things...and when wondering if God even wants to hear from him anymore, my heart just cried out for him! I shared some of my struggles in forgiving others and how I've overcome it. I reminded him that God forgives us for our own sins, so he forgives others for theirs too. I reminded him of a God he had lost sight of for awhile. I have no doubt at all that God made sure we reconnected last night in order to renew his faith! And that is amazing to me! Sometimes I get so bogged down in the everyday of being in ministry and being a Christian, that I sometimes overlook the "miracles" of life. I got to see God at work last night and I'm renewed in my own faith once again!