Plans Change

This past weekend, we had plans to go on a family trip to Tulsa, but that all changed when the tornado blew through parts of Oklahoma.  My in-laws called and asked if they could come down to help with relief efforts instead of going to the lake like they had planned.  I was floored by their thoughfulness and putting their plans on the backburner for the people of Oklahoma.  Since they were coming into town, I decided to cancel our trip to Tulsa as well and spend those days with them since we don't get to see them often!

Friday we went to Bethel Acres to help a family clean up.  The lady who lived there was 78 years old and was saved by being in her basement.  She had a 2-1/2 story home and a shop/barn on her 5 acres of land.  This is all that is left.  A big pile of wood, concrete blocks and broken belongings.

It's amazing what can happen during tornadoes.

 Debris everywhere.  Tree limbs down.  Nothing left.

We worked for hours going through her belongings to see if there was anything to salvage and most of the guys got crazy with their chainsaws and cleaned up a lot of the wood/trees on the property.  Everyone was busy the whole time.

My favorite part though was that of all the places hit, of all the towns we could have gone to, we pulled up and saw my cousins from Kingfisher there helping.  How random that we could do this together without planning it one bit?  God works in mysterious ways!

We got to help people who needed us to come help.  I am grateful for everyone who is coming from near and far to help with the clean up efforts. It's going to be a long time before things are completely done, but hopefully we got to help in a small way.