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Sometimes miracles happen even during a hurricane.

For any of you who don't know, I live in south west Florida. We were recently hit by hurricane Ian. A lady we go to church with was pregnant. Her and her husband were planning to stay home and ride it out. She was kind of happy for the distraction of the hurricane as her due date was approaching. Something to take her mind off the pregnancy. On the day of the hurricane just as it was starting God had other plans for her. Her water broke and it was time! Her husband loaded her into the car and off they went. She was to far along to make it to the hospital they had planned on, but fortunately there was a brand new hospital half way to the one she had planned on using. She was frantically praying that she didn't give birth on the side of the highway in a hurricane. They wheeled into the new hospital, which had just opened six months prior and had been built to the latest hurricane standards. The staff rushed out with a wheelchair and barley got her to the delivery suite when out he came. They were the last people admitted to the hospital before the doors were closed and locked as Ian bore down on them. Since the hospital had been built to the latest hurricane standards they had a birdseye view of it with all of it's destruction. When Ian finally passed the hospital finally discharged them so they could go home. Now remember back in the beginning where they had planned to ride out hurricane Ian at home? When they got home all of the windows had blown in. The ceiling had collapsed and Ian had a free hand at raining in the house. The house is trashed. The structure is concrete block and in good shape, but the rest of the house will have to be gutted and rebuilt. Ladies could you imagine being late along in your pregnancy and being in the house with the windows blowing in and the ceiling collapsing on you? God is great! He knew that was going to happen and he got them out of there just in time. Praise be to God 馃檹
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Carla61-69, F
That's a nice story and I'm m glad it worked out. Where was god though, for the 100+ that died?
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Carla61-69, F
@Stereoguy i said nothing of the storm itself.
There are likely thousands of stories of near misses.
I am happy for them all.
But the children that lost parents, parents that lost children, it's kind of difficult to tell them it was god's plan.
And if it was the devil, why didn't your god prove to his chosen people that the devil cannot win, and push that storm back out to sea?
My father died when i was nine. My fourth grade teacher was also a methodist preacher. I, for a time, went to his church. He told me it was his plan to take my father.
If it was God's plan to destroy my childhood, and damage my family, it was a very shitty plan.
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Carla61-69, F
@Stereoguy ive forgotten more than i remember of the bible.
I am not a believer, as you well know.
But for those of faith, i applaud you. I will never disparage you. I may question at times, but if you believe, believe.