When I returned home the day after Ike made landfall, it was eerie as trees and telephone poles littered the ground. Roofs and fences left debris eve-rywhere. As I made my way to my neighborhood, every signal light was broken. No cars, no peo-ple, no electricity any-where. Taking a quick look around my house, I didn’t know where to begin. So I put batteries in the radio and listened as though the words would make the nightmare go away. Finding candles and matches, I cleaned out the refrigerator because it seemed the most urgent.
Then nothing...I didn’t know what else to do. I needed time to breathe.
I found my hammock and since it was cooler outside than in, I hung it on my “new” slanting porch and settled in carefully.
Gently swaying back and forth the only sounds were those of birds. No planes, no sirens, no children playing. So I concentrated on the blue jays. They were frantic, flying back and forth screeching from one downed tree to the next. Then the hum-ming birds began zip-ping around the bushes in a desperate attempt for answers to the dam-age. That’s when I re-alized that all of God’s Creatures were scared. But God was there in the darkness and bro-kenness, promising a new dawn tomorrow which would include chain saws, generators, blue tarped roofs and ice in coolers. [ View Parters In Mission Spring News Letter ]
I found my hammock and since it was cooler outside than in, I hung it on my “new” slanting porch and settled in carefully.
Gently swaying back and forth the only sounds were those of birds. No planes, no sirens, no children playing. So I concentrated on the blue jays. They were frantic, flying back and forth screeching from one downed tree to the next. Then the hum-ming birds began zip-ping around the bushes in a desperate attempt for answers to the dam-age. That’s when I re-alized that all of God’s Creatures were scared. But God was there in the darkness and bro-kenness, promising a new dawn tomorrow which would include chain saws, generators, blue tarped roofs and ice in coolers. [ View Parters In Mission Spring News Letter ]
