project 52:9 - linked

I cannot let this week pass without commenting on the grass fires that ripped through our community this past week.  Like the Santa Anna winds, our Spring winds can wipe out thousands upon thousands of acres of land in hours...this time, though, they were especially devastating.   

Whether or not your house was one of the 50 or 60 that burned on that fateful, windy day, we were all affected because motherhood is a commonality, it's something shared, to when there is a crisis we watch the news and we pray for those mothers that have been forced to leave everything behind & stand in 70 mile per hour wind with an overpass for a wind block, waiting, waiting, watching through binoculars to see if there will be anything left of their house.  

You can't help but think of memories left behind-the photos, the birth certificates & locks of hair, special pictures drawn by little hands...things no insurance policy can replace.  And you also know that deep down the only irreplaceables are our little ones, to which we all thank God that none of them were lost.