Tornado Relief/ Rebuilding Efforts

You may be looking at these pictures thinking how devastating and sad they are to look at.

There are no words.

Last weekend Adam and I got the opportunity to go out and volunteer in the Treemont subdivision in Athens, AL and this is what we saw. It is one thing to watch You Tube videos and see pictures of the damage, but to be standing in it and trying to help and watching people sift through the remains of their house for the things that are most precious to them- it is HEARTBREAKING. Never in my life have I been more grateful for the roof over my head. Very humbling experience.

This is such a comforting site to see... utility workers working around the clock to restore power. True Alabama heroes!

This is what we were doing on 4/27/11 when people were going through a tornado and losing their homes. I put my kids in their bike helmets and let them run wild in the hallway thinking that the sirens were just a little over dramatic since they had been going off all day long. Never again will I be desensitized to a tornado siren. I have had my wake up call!

Adam spent this weekend in the Lockhart community in Harvest, AL volunteering where people have no insurance. Very proud to be the wife of such a giving man that actually goes out and is the hands and feet of Christ!