As many of you know, I’m a native Atlantan, a genuine
Southern belle and homegrown Georgia peach, and you’re probably seeing the news
coverage today of the terrible snowstorm that hit us yesterday. Dubbed “Snowmageddon 2014,” the storm left a
calamitous compendium of offspring in the form of ice which shut our fair city
down and forced us into a state of gridlock.
People have been stranded since yesterday afternoon at their respective
workplaces, in vehicles, in schools, etc., and as of this writing still haven’t
been able to make it home. There have been multiple accidents, students are trapped
in schools and on buses, and there have been a number of motor vehicle
accidents. Cars have been abandoned
alongside the roads, and there was even an incident of a birth on one of our
major interstates!
To every negative though
there is a positive. We’ve had many
good samaritans emerge unexpectedly from the shadows who've been offering hot
beverages, temporary shelter, and transportation for those who have no other
way to make it home. Along with this,
people are praying as never before and are turning their focus towards a God
who delivers, protects, and saves. As
believers, we have a bird’s-eye view that others don’t possess; we see adverse situations as a means to
greater and as a direct catalyst to increased fortitude, expanded strength,
more powerful vision, and intensified maturity.
We continue to pray for those who are still enmeshed in the
negative effects of this storm but are grateful for the good things that our
God is birthing out of it.
*Photo via Angela Lane Woods.