Just a thought by coppi

Ian, which was the hurricane which hit Florida with torrential rains and winds destroying everything in and around its space and causing disaster beyond one’s imagination.  I live in Tampa, Fl and we missed the eye of the hurricane by a turning to the east a few hours before it was to hit us. We did get rain and wind which caused damage also, but not near what Ft Myers’s, Naples, and Orlando, etc., experienced.  We lost electricity and still are without it.  I am so spoiled now and love all the amenities electricity brings, but there was a time in my life when I was a youth growing up on a small farm in Fredericksburg,TX, there was nothing but gasoline lamps, and wood burning stoves.  No hot water.  Everything had to be heated on a stove – dishwater, bath water, etc.  We lived close to the Pedernales river and took advantage of using it for bathing.  It was a difficult/hard life especially for my mother.  My mother raise ten children on that little farm.  My father died when I was very young and I do not have much of a memory of him.  Why I am even bringing this to memory is when the electricity went out and I was having to cook on a camp stove, my thoughts drifted back to that time in my life.  

My mother was a women of faith and she read Psalms 91 daily – “1) He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2) I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God , in Him I will trust”. Mama put her trust in this Mighty God to help her raise ten children by herself with Him as her companion and helper to accomplish this task. She was not delivered from it, but Jesus never left or forgot her.  He walked with her.  All her children grew up being accomplished in the field they chose for life.

My love for Jesus grew from the many miracles I saw Him do for us as children of a mother of great faith.