Overwhelming!

Wow, watching the news this week can certainly be that and extremely sad.

As I watch the morning show, I sit on my comfy couch eating my breakfast and watching my toddler son try to ride the dog with extreme excitement. And on my television there is nothing but story after story of displaced families or families looking for other family members, or people on the rooftops or yelling from inside their home for help. This reporter voluntarily went into flooded neighborhoods to show us the devastation, (like we didn't already know!), and they would motor by people begging for help, holding up signs saying "Help me." My heart was breaking for those families being driven by, I can't help but wonder what will happen to them. As tears are streaming down my face from all the devastation before my eyes, my toddler looks into my eye as I give him his breakfast and gives me his biggest smile and does a little giggle, from where it came from nobody knows. But I truly believe that God knew I needed that to lift my spirits this morning.

This morning I sit here and count every single one of my blessings, my life, my child's life, my home, food to eat and water to drink. The basics, yes, but those are things that our fellow americans simply do no have any of right now. Today I am truly thankful for all I have and I hope as you read you know how truly blessed you are to be able to read this as well.

May God be with those lives who have been ruined this week. My heart goes out to all of them.