Water Water Everywhere...

 
Two helicopters have just flown over my house at an uncharacteristically low altitude.  Not that 2 helicopters flying over my house, in and of itself, is characteristic at all; but it is, however, a reflection of just how bizarre the last couple of days have been around here.  The rain started with all of the normal, classic hype of red-colored bands stretching from LA. to OH. moving at an ever-changing pace, in an unpredictable direction.  Over a dozen reported deaths & hundreds of millions of dollars worth of flood damage later, I'm sitting on my patio, staring out into one of the most beautiful days we've ever had. 

Can''t really put my finger on the pulse of emotions we've experienced as a family during this wave of storms.  I guess as we let life take us a little further down these wet roads it'll start to form more clarity.  After seeing so much devastation from a distance, we're all sort of shell-shocked form having it's reality at our doorstep.  It's one thing to watch a flooded Iowa writhe through the looking glass of CNN & FOX, but quite another to see it through your front windshield.

Bellevue,TN. has always been dubbed "Nashville's Best Kept Secret".  Sheri & I actually built our 1st home
there 15 years ago - beautiful area.  For now, it's beauty will remain hidden beneath an overwhelming span of destruction.  Even the most luxurious of developments, the ones that we somehow always assume to be untouchable, have been submerged.

Gaylord's Opryland Hotel is now empty of occupants and filled with 6 ft. of flood waters.  Surreal.  They don't expect to be back up & running for another 3 - 6 months.  That's a bit financial hit for all of us Nashvillians.

All of this drives home the profound truth of just how fragile this earthly side of things really is.  Leaning on Jesus & everything we can't see within His very present, relevant promises during such a blindsided assault of loss is about as real as it gets.  No matter how deep the rising Harpeth & Cumberland Rivers may get, His protection & care for us goes deeper still...Romans 8:18 (The Message).