Choosing not to worry

One of my brothers works in Moore, OK.  A tornado ravaged Moore today.  As always, he is being slow to answer my text so I haven't heard from him.  I have been Skyping about it with my boss who first clued me into the situation.  When I told her my brother works at Target, she said her son saw pics of a Target store destroyed but I can't find those pics online.  Her son is young and knew no details.  She said she didn't want to panic me, just letting me know.  She hopes he's okay.  For all I know, he's sitting in his apartment in another town, away from the destruction zone.

 

When she told me she didn't want to panic me, I debated telling her that I wouldn't panic because he's in God's hands.  I chickened out because she's not a believer and I didn't know how she'd take it.  However, I'm going to tell her before I leave that I'm not going to worry and his fate is up to God.  It's true and it needs to be said.  I'm through being a chicken.

 

Pray for the people affected by the tornados in the mid-west today.

 

~MM

Cousin Judy called me at work to let me know about the tornado.  We have another cousin who lives in Newcastle where the tornado first touched down, so we were thinking of her and my middle son who works at Target in Moore.  I looked online and saw the devastation and started to worry, a little.  Then cousin Judy called me back to tell me the broadcaster had actually mentioned that the Target store and Lowe's hadn't been hit!  I couldn't reach my boy by phone, but about 7:00 this evening, my phone rang and his picture popped up.  I picked it up but the call dropped.  Finally, 45 minutes later, he was able to get through.  They had holed up in a walk-in cooler for an hour, then came out to a parking lot full of emergency vehicles and a store with no power.  They also lost water because the water plant had been hit.  His car was covered in debris, and the roads were difficult to navigate, but hey, we'll take that!   

I do realize how bad it could have been.  His store was within sight of one of the elementary schools that got hit.  But I had just read in the book of Mark this morning about Jesus walking on the water, while his disciples in their boat were scared of the storm.  That was a very good passage to read on the morning of a day like this!

~GG