On June 6, 2010 I was volunteering with the American Red Cross and was assigned behind a home that was destroyed by a tornado to look for any kind of salvageable documents or pictures...anything. I was assigned to Mamie Drive where a family lost 3 out of the 4 family members. While I was there I was praying to God that He would lead me to what I needed to find because it was so overwhelming emotionally that I didn't even now where to start. He led me, I could feel Him with me. It was such a peaceful feeling. I found the surviving girls birth announcement picture, the cover of a child's story Bible with Proverbs 3:5-6 on the back of the cover, and a painted hand print of the little boy who passed with his name and age written in pencil. I found the items behind their home just a few feet away from the creek that runs through the woods. I was so thankful they were in great condition compared to all the muddy, tore, and destroyed papers and pictures I did find. I turned the picture of the little girl, the little boys hand print, and the Bible cover to the Church, they sat them aside. I pray that they got to the family. I was touched in such a way that day that it will be with me forever. To find anything that was salvageable was a miracle and to find that little boys hand print brought me to tears. It makes me think of my own children, if something like this happened to me, and everything was gone, to have at least a hand print would mean everything to me.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Do not depend on your own
understanding. In all your ways remember him. Then he will make your
paths smooth and straight. Proverbs 3:5-6
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