Today we begin in earnest cleaning out my flooded house. I am not looking forward to this. It is going to be a real pain. I’m thankful that only about 4-5 inches of water got into the house, but still it destroyed a lot of things. I have treasures from my great grandmother, grandmother and mother. Again putting it into prospective they are only things. But things that I wanted to hand down to my children. My children have responded with enthusiasm and a sense of urgency. And several nieces and nephews and my brother will be there with us. As so often is the case, you don’t know what people will do until adversity comes. I always wanted God to explain to me why it takes adversity to get people off of dead center. But I am grateful that they are responding. It is stressful enough just having a flooded house. So many people in southwest Louisiana were forced out of their homes by the water. If you don’t know we had rains of biblical proportions. We have had so much rain that 70,000 people were forced out of their homes. That is a good size city. As heart-breaking as it is, I am thankful to God that very few people have died. And that God is still in control of this world no matter what we think. I will still give Him honor and glory for who He is. Ecclesiastes 3:1,10 “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: ….I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.” (KJV).

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