Struggles and Adversities

29/07/2013 · by Sarah · in 22 May, Children and Disasters, Children anxiety and disasters, Colorado Wildfires, El Reno Tornado, Great is thy faithfulness, Hurricane Sandy, In Between, Joplin Tornado, Lead your family, Moore Oklahoma, Orchestral Survival Piece, STL Tornado, support for survivors, Survivors not victims, Texas Fertilizer Plant, Trusting in the Everlasting God, Tuscaloosa Tornado. ·

The struggles and adversities after a tornado can be pretty high and somewhat stressful. Every day life is so different from where you began. So very different. Let me show you the pre tornado life I had in pictures.

Yes at this point in time, my bedroom was messy. It was an organized mess. But this was my bedroom, on the southwest side of the house. The Picture below was taken below when Mark bug and I arrived at my childhood home. Right in the thick of things.

Childhood home destroyed, Tornado/storm in the background

This is how a tornado can drastically change your life. You have no prep time before a tornado, like you do in a hurricane as such. You have to seek shelter or else…

Yet with all the adversitites within this present picture there is so much joy on the other side. It may seem like all your routines have just ended that you have enjoyed. Well God has some better plans for each of us. SO much better plans. Plans to

Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

All I had that summer was for me to cling to God’s Word. Cling to it constantly. Cling to when I just wanted to sleep. Believe me it has been my friend when everything else was falling apart.

It may seem like it was the hardest time to walk, and yet God had plans and they were to supercede even my human plans. Granted this is the hardest to show how far i’ve come, but it truly honest.

I am a child of the Living God.

I make a glad noise to Him when it is very difficult to do.

I praise and Trust Him when times Get rough!

I am not alone in my Journey with Christ!

I am a child of the One True King!

I have been Saved!

I am Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb!

I am a Daughter of the King!

I am Worthy!

I am special!

I have a gift to write given to me by Him!

I love how He has Grown Me!