If you have ever heard the song "Rise" by Shawn McDonald you know how we feel here today. Mom has sung it all day long. For those who don't know the song here is the chorus:
Yes I will rise
Out of these ashes, rise
From this trouble I have found
And this rubble on the ground
I will rise
Cause He who is in me
Is greater than I will ever be
And I will rise
Mom and I spent the day cleaning up the yard and clearing away the old tin shed. We cleaned every oil covered item with Dawn and saved all we could. We are down to just one tub of what we think we may have to work more to save or just through away. We have moved everything to other spots but we still have the back yard to clean up. Everything is just so messy ... It is driving Mom crazy.
Mom says there is a lesson to learn in everything. She says everything happens for a reason and it is up to us to find that reason. The shed taught us that even if you store oil and gas and chemicals on one side of the shed and your kids outdoor toys on the other it isn't enough. Everything gets oil covered anyway. She also said that we learned a way to secure the Chicken coop to footers and finally we learned that the shed isn't insured. But most of all she said we will learn to "Rise"! We are not going to let it get to us. We lost over $1500.00 in just 10 minutes of life. Not to mention the chickens that suffered such a horrible death or the damage to the Community Coop. We know God will take care of all of it but we don't see how. And that is the part that has Mom worried.
I know something is going to happen but I don't know what, when or why. I know this because of something I saw last night. I don't understand it but it is just one of those things. Anyway, Last night Dad and I went to the barn to get some stuff to flip the coop back over. We left Mom sorting through things and picking up the yard. When we came back Mom was standing in the yard with tears running down her face. I knew she was up set but the thing that got me was the fact that she was laughing. I looked at what was going on around her and I just didn't get it. I saw hundreds of Dragon Flies They were huge and everywhere. We have them at the pond but that is over a quarter mile from the house and we never see them by the house. Then there were swallows... Like 15 of them. They were swooping and going after those dragon flies and coming inches from Mom in all directions. They were twisting and turning and it seemed to go on for hours even though it only lasted moments. I just stood there looking, Watching the swallows swoop, twist and twirl around my Mom who was standing there laughing, crying and watching while the dragon flies came out of nowhere and dance over everything. It was so weird that I don't know what to think of it. I asked Mom about it later and she said she was crying as she looked at the yard, the coop and the task ahead and then all of the sudden the bugs and birds were everywhere and coming so close to her that she just started laughing and couldn't stop either laughing or crying. She said she didn't really know what it meant but she liked to think that those wings that came so close to her were the wings of angels sent to help us RISE!
Yes I will rise
Out of these ashes, rise
From this trouble I have found
And this rubble on the ground
I will rise
Cause He who is in me
Is greater than I will ever be
And I will rise
Mom and I spent the day cleaning up the yard and clearing away the old tin shed. We cleaned every oil covered item with Dawn and saved all we could. We are down to just one tub of what we think we may have to work more to save or just through away. We have moved everything to other spots but we still have the back yard to clean up. Everything is just so messy ... It is driving Mom crazy.
Mom says there is a lesson to learn in everything. She says everything happens for a reason and it is up to us to find that reason. The shed taught us that even if you store oil and gas and chemicals on one side of the shed and your kids outdoor toys on the other it isn't enough. Everything gets oil covered anyway. She also said that we learned a way to secure the Chicken coop to footers and finally we learned that the shed isn't insured. But most of all she said we will learn to "Rise"! We are not going to let it get to us. We lost over $1500.00 in just 10 minutes of life. Not to mention the chickens that suffered such a horrible death or the damage to the Community Coop. We know God will take care of all of it but we don't see how. And that is the part that has Mom worried.
I know something is going to happen but I don't know what, when or why. I know this because of something I saw last night. I don't understand it but it is just one of those things. Anyway, Last night Dad and I went to the barn to get some stuff to flip the coop back over. We left Mom sorting through things and picking up the yard. When we came back Mom was standing in the yard with tears running down her face. I knew she was up set but the thing that got me was the fact that she was laughing. I looked at what was going on around her and I just didn't get it. I saw hundreds of Dragon Flies They were huge and everywhere. We have them at the pond but that is over a quarter mile from the house and we never see them by the house. Then there were swallows... Like 15 of them. They were swooping and going after those dragon flies and coming inches from Mom in all directions. They were twisting and turning and it seemed to go on for hours even though it only lasted moments. I just stood there looking, Watching the swallows swoop, twist and twirl around my Mom who was standing there laughing, crying and watching while the dragon flies came out of nowhere and dance over everything. It was so weird that I don't know what to think of it. I asked Mom about it later and she said she was crying as she looked at the yard, the coop and the task ahead and then all of the sudden the bugs and birds were everywhere and coming so close to her that she just started laughing and couldn't stop either laughing or crying. She said she didn't really know what it meant but she liked to think that those wings that came so close to her were the wings of angels sent to help us RISE!
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