Hurricane Helene.
It’s something so far out of my understanding I can’t comprehend it. The things I have experienced and seen here, and all of the loss and suffering; It’s enough to tear someone to shreds. It’s something that pulls my heart strings so deep. I know that God is good. I know he has a plan. I know that my brain can’t comprehend what he has planed. Something that brings me to tears every time I think about it is the pain everyone is going through. It all seems so overwhelming and big. The pain seems endless. The loss so vast. The unrest I have been seeing is increasing by the day, and people are getting angry and violent. There are many who lost everything. Yes the community is here. But the pain and loss is so much bigger than the bare necessities. It’s something deeper than most know how to deal with. Being one person in such a vast area of loss and pain seems hopeless. Trying to show the world what it means to be a Christian. Loving like Jesus. Being a listening ear. Being a beacon of hope. I feel lost. I can’t help everyone. I want everyone to know how much God loves them. I want them to have peace. I want them to know with their whole heart that God does care. My heart aches for the folks that don’t know. I am honestly at loss of words for how I feel. Maybe my tears are the words I can’t express. Maybe my tears will write the story I can’t tell. Yet in all this I have peace. I know I am making a difference in the people I come in contact with. The smiles and joy that crosses peoples faces when an impossible job for them has been completed. The tears that are woven in their story’s of how God has protected and provided for them. The sparkle that returns to their eyes when they see a crew of able bodied folk come to serve them in the best way they can. It’s all making a difference. Maybe that was the plan. Maybe it took a hurricane to show the world what Christians should be like. Maybe it took Helene to bring people to God. Maybe, it took black mountain to wake a part of my heart.
-From a volunteer