a great post

I read this post from yesterday at the LPM blog written by Amanda..... Beth Moore's daughter
Read it if you will, it is powerful.

http://livingproofministries.blogspot.com/2008/10/there-is-rescuer.html

Big Thank You!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to all my Blogging Buddies who have been praying for me and my family for the last couple of weeks while we faced Hurricane Ike.

You are a wonderful group of ladies and I am so blessed to call you my friend.

I am tired of hurricanes

What a week it was. Recovering from Ike hasn't been easy or fun. I am still exhausted from working and one day off didn't help me recover much. Yesterday I slept till noon. I know I should have been in Church but I just couldn't get out of bed. The only reason I got up was to feed my hungry kids. For us, our schedules are back to normal. School, after school practices and I am sure alot of homework started again today. Poor Lane, this is his first year of school and I am sure he is confussed about going 1 week and off for a hurricane. Beings we started school Aug. 25 and he has only been 11days. I pray this it is for us this hurricane season. We are so ready to be through this season. Texas has gotten 3 storms already this year. And my pocket book can't take another. They are so expensive to evacuate from and that is not including if you come home to a damaged home. Continue to pray for all that were harmed by Ike. I thank you so much for your prayers. And pray for me too, I am in sort of a down state of mind, Sort of overwhelmed. I can not get motivated to do anything and I am just slapped worn out.
I will leave you with a few photos of when we were evacuated to Mississippi.

My daughter Lauren and my nieces Shelby, and Christa


Lauren chilling on the golf cart

My sister Colleen, and my uncle Louis, Thanks again for letting us come stay with you.

Part of the hurricane gang playing football

Left my niece Christa, and right my cousin Jillian we had a hard time telling them apart.

Christa and Dustin playing a little pool football

Our last night there, trying to stay calm while the storm rolled in.

More on Ike's fury

The last few days have been exhausting. We are working some crazy hours right now and all I can managed to do is that. My house is a wreck and I have no energy to clean it up right now. We are all doing well. School starts back on Monday. Our town is still with out power and there is only one gas station that is full operational. It is so depressing to watch the news. It is just devastating what Ike did here. I live about 70 miles off the coast but there are so many memories there. And they all have been wiped off the beach. Chris was able to find an arial shot of his grandpa's cabin. Before and after. It is gone. You should be able to click on the picture to enlarge it.

Some of the other towns inland from the coast, off the river, had massive flooding and people had to be rescued from roof tops. Homes and businesses were a total loss.

there is even a report of a lion from a local zoo taking shelter with people from Cyrstal Beach in a church....

Pray for all those that were affected by Ike's fury. It will be a long time before things are back to normal in these Texas towns.

No damage Praise God.

I have little time to update. We are fine, my house is fine, and over all my community is fine. But I work for the electrical company and the power is out from our supplier Entergy. They had horrible damage done to transmission lines and power production plants. We are working long hours now. I will update a later. Thanks for all your prayers. God is so Good to me.
Here is a local picture of what was our beachs here

Before

After

update on Ike

THrusday night we decided to leave to beat the traffic of mandatory evacuation for 6am. We are at my familys place in Hattiesburg, Ms. there are 15 of us that came. I have already been called to be back to work 6 am Sunday. I cant get the prediction to upload. please pray for us today it will be a very nervous.

Take a Hike, IKE!

Last week it was Gustav this week it is Ike..... Can we get a little rest for the weary.
Praise God we didn't end up with any damage from Gustav but this weekend might sing a different toon for the upper Texas coast. I work for my local electric company and we have been having meetings twice a day since yesterday with the State officials and the National Weather Service. Here is what is predicted as of the morning.

With Hurricane Force winds ranging out in a Radius of 75 miles. and Tropical Storm Force winds going to a possible 250 miles out.

Lord knows that Louisiana can't take another hit right now and us here in East Texas are not looking forward what we went though 3 years ago with Hurricane Rita. I my self went with out power at my house for 17 days. That is tough.

Praying for a easy Hit if we have to take the blow......

Will keep you guys updated.

Pictures from Longview

Since Gustav cancelled Wes's birthday party Saturday afternoon Mrs. Tracy made him a homemade cake. It was so good. Homemade icing too.....

Lane killing a little time

Sunday afternoon my sister took some of the kids to the park to get them out of the house.... after all there were 17 of us there.

Shelby (my neice) and Lauren

Lane and Blake (my nephew)

They were hot.

Gustav is Gone.

Not knowing exactly where the Hurricane was going to make landfall we decided to evacuate Saturday afternoon. It is always hard to leave your house behind, but we had each other. It was a blessing to be able to come home this time and Gustav missing us. He came ashore in Louisiana and headed west. We got up Monday morning to head home before the rain bands started. After a long and tiring weekend I am Blessed to be home and to get things back to running order around my house. The called off School on Saturday til Thursday, so the kids are enjoying an extended holiday weekend. But soon it will be back to normal around my house. With 3 more storms to watch this week I will be keeping an eye on them. Although I am not at all ready to up and leave again.
We are getting alot of rain from it and we did get some winds last night (40mph). But still praising the Lord for no devastation.
Pray for all those effected by Gustav. They have alot of cleaning up to do.
I have some pictures from our time away this weekend I will try to get loaded tonight.