Travel - Today I got up at 6 am eastern time (5 am central) to get to the Atlanta airport. I got to the airport at 7:50 am and I was stinkin tired. When I got to the ticket counter I found out my 9:50 am flight got canceled and I had to wait for the 12:25 pm flight. I was not looking forward to waiting over 4 hours in the Atlanta airport for my flight; so I found an empty spot against the wall and took a 2 hour nap. Believe it or not it was very refreshing. After that I put finishing touches on my sermon with some Starbucks and then boarded my flight. Unfortunately both of my flight had ridiculous turbulence so I had some good Jesus time. I have flown so many times and turbulence still gives me anxiety. I hate it. After a very turbulent flight from Dallas I finally arrived at OKC at 3:30 pm.
Tornadoes - After a long day of travel I finally got home at 5 pm for a 30 minute break before I headed back to the church. Then the good ole tornado sirens go off. We look at the weather channel and 2 tornadoes hit in OKC. They seem to not be near where we live so we get in the car to go to church. On the way I starting seeing these real low clouds and got a little nervous as a nasty wind starts blowing against the Vibe. So we pull over real quick, run into a bank and hang out with their employees in a bathroom for 20 minutes. When the storm passes we go outside to see a tree snapped in half and realize something nasty hit real close to us. As we get back on the roads power is out everywhere and I'm wondering are we going to have to cancel church. By the way, I saw on the news tonight that someone reported a small tornado hitting on Penn and Memorial between 5 and 6 pm, this is the exact intersection of the bank we pulled into. Crazy!!!
Two Salvations - Of course all of the tornadoes and storms happen before our youth service and attendance was very, very low. Which isn't a huge deal but we had a lot of momentum with our outreach last week and we wanted to capitalize on that this week. That is why I flew back early from the Drive Conference and then we have our lowest attendance. Frustrating! Now, I was encouraged by some returning guests from our outreach but also annoyed with the weather and low attendance. To be honest I actually got mad at God for a minute. My thoughts were "of all Wednesday's Lord, why this one?" I then stopped sulking (literally) and started worshiping. At the end of the night, two students committed their lives to Christ, which made me realize the travel, tornadoes and everything that happened today were all worth it. Thank you Jesus for the two miracles tonight and forgive me for my sulking and narrow perspective. Today was crazy, tonight was humbling.
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He has a way of putting it all in perspective doesn't he.
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