I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel

Faith and Trust

Friday, August 17, 2017, Hurricane Harvey hit the gulf coast of Texas.
Sunday, August 20, 2017.
Hurricane Harvey came to Houston and flooded many homes of hundreds of families, mine included.
I️ will never forget those couple of weeks in August.

You see, I️ wasn't planning on a hurricane coming and changing my life. I️ was planning for my junior year of high school. I️ was preparing myself for the long, hard tiring year that I️ was going to face, I️ had many choices and responsibilities I would have to take care of this year. But then Harvey.

A day before I️ was to start school, my house had twenty-four inches of water by early Monday morning. It was so hard for me to go through something like that.

From Friday to Sunday, we watched the water come closer and closer to our house, letting friends and family know how high and how much rain we were actually going to get. By late Saturday night, early Sunday morning; we were trapped in our house. We couldn't get our cars out because the water had gotten too high and our street had completely flooded, so we were going to have to wade it out. Sunday morning rolled around and my mom came and woke up my sister, one of my brothers, and me to start moving furniture up on bricks and taking things upstairs.

Y'all we starting to decorate for fall because we thought we were not going flood. So from 5:45 a.m. Sunday morning to 2:30 a.m. Monday morning, we moved as much as we could upstairs. By the time we were done, the upstairs looked like it could have been on the show Hoarders. My Fitbit kept track of how many flights of stairs I️ did. 78 flights of stairs y'all.

We called my uncle and told that he would have to come and get us but it was too dark and my mom felt it was not safe with us rowing across the water late at night.
Later Monday morning, my uncle came and picked up my eight person family and two dogs, to take us to my grandparents house. That whole day we were exhausted to tired to be sad, but enough to let a few tears fall. My aunt came and comforted my mom as my sister and I went to a friend's house to take our minds off of house. That night, I️ sat down with my Bible and began to read, when a text from my life group leader popped up. She was encouraging me and sent these verses.

Psalm 18:16-19
"He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters. He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support. He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me."

Those words will always be a reminder of how I trusted God in a time of sadness and distress. I knew he had a plan for my family and me and that he held us in his hands.

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Hey y'all! Sorry I haven't posted, life has been crazy these past couple of months. But slowly and surly, we're getting our house back in order. Please keep my family and all the other families affect by Hurricane Harvey in your prayers . It's just been a hard year/couple months for everyone! Love y'all!!! Oh and the pic above is my house with all the trash, Sheetrock, etc. anything that had flood water or wasn't savable we had to throw out. Anyway Happy Late Thanksgiving and Happy early Christmas!!!!!