Alabama the Beautiful

I am so torn up about this whole tornado situation. I have cried numerous times. My heart is so broken for Alabama. I feel so helpless. Jared has already signed up to be a clean-up volunteer, and we have donated bottled water to the Dream Center at Church of the Highlands, but I still feel completely helpless. We had some friends lose their home in Ashville, and 2 people that work with Jared lost their home and lost their relatives.
Tuscaloosa really hits home with me, I spent 4 years of my life in that town and on that campus. I am a proud Alumni of the University. It is what I would call my 2nd home, I look at the before and after pictures and it makes me sick. I used to roam that town that is now unrecognizable. I used to shop in those buildings that are now leveled. I think about the students that were scared to death, probably wanting to be with their parents, crying, hiding while roofs where being ripped off the buildings they where in. Its just too much to take in, especially now that I am a parent myself. Tuscaloosa and many other destroyed cities will go on, buildings will be rebuilt and lives will start again. But there will always be loss. Of memories, of loved ones, of homes, of history.

I am not perfect and I certainly don't try to be, but I just want to encourage anybody who reads this blog to be in prayer for the people who are hurting and the people who are helping and the state of Beautiful Alabama. I know when I feel like I can't do anything I can always talk to my Heavenly Father. Its time for us to serve. Its an awesome opportunity to come together as one body of Christ and really be like Jesus and serve. I want to serve God, so I serve people.