While I know that this is a small bright spot in light of the devastation, a couple of exciting things happened for my family today.
First of all, Miss Cassie was interviewed by an ESPN reporter doing an article on Greensburg athletes. I found it here - and I thought it was nicely written. I think it's a pretty big deal to be on the ESPN site when you're in high school!
Secondly, you probably saw that President Bush visited the town today. Initially I think most people planned to keep right on working through his visit (as nice as it is to have the President come to town, unearthing more of your possessions certainly takes priority), but it rained, so work was delayed. My brother in law actually met the President and shook his hand! Again - a pretty big deal!
I don't know any more details about the meeting/hand shaking than that because I only found out through a voicemail my sister left me, and I have YET to talk to my brother in law since this entire thing happened.
I know they would readily exchange a mention on ESPN and a chance to meet the President just to have their belongings back - and their lives back.
Please continue to pray for them. I haven't had a chance to find out more requests from them, but I'm going to guess at these:
* Weather cooperation. Please pray that more rain and storms don't keep coming so they can continue to search.
* Strength. I can tell that shock is wearing off and reality is arriving. It is hard to realize that work is no longer chasing kids down the hall of a school or preparing a sermon for Sunday or studying for a test...but covering the same ground you covered yesterday. Hoping to find something new and hoping to wake up and find this all a bad, bad dream.
* Health. Cassie has really taken a sunburn hit. She told me just now that she visited a medic tent in town and was able to get some medicated ointment (or something medicated, anyway) to help with the burn. She's sore and hot and hurting.
* Wisdom. So many decisions have yet to be made - not only for the future but how to spend the money they get, little by little.
* Extended family. Please pray for those of us who are trying to support them from afar, have no idea what to say (that would be me), and desperately just want to fix it...yet can't.
2 comments:
Bekah,
Just a note to tell you how much I appreciate your coverage of your sister's, and her family's troubles.
You have a talent for identifying and describing the personal and functional nuances in such a tragedy. It's been an education.
And, I know you've directed many prayers towards the needs of some very special people.
Thanks Chris...I'm trying so hard not to wear people out with it. (I worry about someone sending a "get over it!" message.)
Writing about it helps me keep my perspective (or at least try to do so). I'm prone to meltdowns without warning. Last night I stopped in the coffee shop for a drink and completely burst into tears when they told me it would be 20 minutes. Had nothing to do with the drink. But the poor girl behind the counter didn't know that.
But how do you explain you're not mad because she's stuck working alone with 20 customers...but that see there was this tornado....
So anyway, this is my mode of healing for now. Thanks for putting up with it and for writing! It's good to hear from you.
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