This week, I had a little excitement of the wrong kind. I was walking a lake lot with a contractor on Tuesday. You may remember that it was quite windy on Tuesday in our area - windy enough to blow a large limb out of a tree that happened to land directly on my head. It rung my bell, and my head was bleeding. I couldn't tell how bad it was, but I felt ok to drive myself to the hospital. I left the hospital the proud owner of 9 new staples in my head. Tuesday night, I was watching the local news, and there was a story of a mother who had been hit by a limb that had fallen due to the weight of the snow. She is alive but paralyzed. Fear, relief and sadness all hit me simultaneously. "Why did that limb hit me?" "Why was the limb that hit her bigger than the one that hit me?" "How is her family going to cope with her new condition?" "What if I had been paralyzed?" I don't have the answers. I just pray that she knows the same God that I do - the One that is powerful and loving, and that the people around her are able to show her their love and His.
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