"But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you. For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield." Psalm 5:11-12
I was working on the computer and Ryan had fallen asleep in the recliner. While watching the weather predictions I heard a weird noise from outside. It sounded like someone splashed the front door with a tub of water. It woke Ryan up. He went down to check it out. We have (or had) two trees in the front yard. The tree to the right (farthest from the driveway) had snapped into thirds. We couldn't really tell what exactly had happened as the wind was still fierce and all we could see were tree branches swaying like crazy. Once things calmed down we took the camera out. Here is what we found...
This pic is taken from the front door. If you take two steps from the threshold you would be standing on broken tree branches.
In the close up you can see that the tree separated into three sections- one remaining and two that split into different directions. If the entire tree had gone down, following the same pattern, the one part standing would have landed on the house.
Although the yard is covered in tree branches, the only part of the tree that landed on the car was the leaves from the tips of the branches.
Thank you Jesus:
A) that Ryan had just trimmed the low lying branches 3 days ago
B) for the direction the wind was blowing so to keep it off the house
C) that the only tree parts that landed on the car was the tips of leaves from branches
D) that we never lost power
E) that the only thing lost in this storm was a tree
F) that you continually watch over us all day and all night!
G) that you are God's son who died for me to pay a payment i could never afford
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