CREATIVE TRUST

 

“Things are just things.”

That was the message we received from our niece in Nebraska last Sunday night. Their home had just been hit by one of the many tornados which stormed through that state. The entire family was safe, but the house was a total loss.

By the time we arrived to help with clean-up, Nebraska neighbors had done what the Midwest does best. A friend in the sheriff's office had called a friend in the fire department. Neighbors descended on the property, removed the downed trees, brought supplies and boarded up what was left of the house.

Inside, it looked as if a giant eggbeater had stirred up the contents of every room, mixing their possessions with corn stalks from the field across the road, and broken glass from their own windows. In exchange for the corn stalks from across the road, the tornado had added their belonging to the corn field behind their house.

Whatever is salvageable will be preserved, the rest will be totaled. “Things are just things.”

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6