Today we were at Mom and Dad's (surprise! aren't we ALWAYS there???) and though I hadn't planned on staying for supper, it smelled so good, Mom told us to stay, and so we did. I noticed some lightning outside and a severe thunderstorm warning for our county on the tv but didn't pay much attention. The garden could use the water. Yummy supper, then we left. We watched lightning in front of us the whole drive home and on the last leg I started noticing leaves and small branches everywhere, then a police officer in the road moving bigger branches and a very large branch hanging from the power line that crossed the road in front of us. He waved me through, it didn't look safe to me but we prayed and drove under and thanked the Lord for his protection. I'm glad I wasn't driving in the storm that caused THAT, I thought. Just a little further another police car, more flares in the road but this time it wasn't a branch, it was an entire tree leaning on the power lines that run next to the road. Oh Lord! We prayed and thanked God for his protection and asked him to protect those who had to fix it.
We got home and thanked God for brining us safely home and protecting us on the way. So when Archer discovered that our umbrella had blown over, broken in half, smashed our garden, I reminded myself to be thankful that it wasn't worse. But I was a little upset. But still praising God for his grace and protection.
A broken umbrella and flattened bean plants were the worst thing that happened to us today, and for that I'm praising the Lord. Thank You!!!
Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
~Psalm 100:2
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