It was a normal day.  I had just come back from voting.  The family was having a pretty good time running around the house.  I had been home only for a few minutes when the sirens started.   The wind started to pick up.  The sky turned a weird greenish color when all the sudden it had a weird type lightning hit.  Most of the kids were already in the bathroom area.  My son Jero and I were outside watching the storm clouds form.  When the lightning did its weird thing,  we watched it form from the ground up a funnel cloud.  This was the real deal.  Jero screams its a tornado daddy…oh my Gosh.  We watched the twister as it hit the back buildings and sheds we had built.  Man you talk about splintered to pieces.  When we saw that i yelled Jero its time to get into the bathroom this is the real deal.  Man the wind was blowing windows were being shattered….like alls we heard was glass being shattered inside the house.  Man man man what to do…the kids were already praying when i got into the small 5×5 bathroom ..with 10 people in there it was a bit cramped.  I tryed to shut the door but couldnt shut it really very good at all.  The back door blew open wind filled up the house.  More glass sounds and more shattering sounds filled the air.  Then it got quiet and the rain started.  We came out to see what had happened.  My tin roof over the garage was removed on one side and over the porch.  The bricks on the end of the house were destroyed.  But as i walked out from the bathroom i noticed that the kitchen counters were really clean.  Everything was blown off of it.  I said to Robin wow look at the counters…God likes clean counters like me….lolololol  We all laughed everything that was on the counters was on the floor the counters were spotless.  The back end of my tractor was in our field about 100yards from the shed where it was parked and the front end was in the neighbor’s yard.  My son Jero said hey daddy arent you glad Brandon came and took that 4 wheeler off to get it fixed.  I said hadn’t given it much thought.  He said yeah cause it would have been parked in that shed and been blown over to Mr. Hillmans yard.  Mr Hillman lives about 1000 yards away from our home.  Tom Browning, Bubby Walker were out here right after they heard we had been hit with the tornado..they brought tarps, i climbed up in the rain to put a tarp over the end of the house..talk about scary ,my brother mike showed up and helped secure the windows in the rain.  Since his near death tree experience he hasnt been one to enjoy heights anymore so he was ground bound.  I have always said it was cause he was a fat man..although he really is not fat…i just tease like that with all my brothers…  All my fences were down.  Josh kept the horses fed all night to keep them occupied so they wouldnt find the broken fences.  We thanked God for saving us.  This day began like all others a normal day with no issues.  Its amazing how things happen to us like any other day.  When David started out to help feed his brothers it was like any other day.  Then Goliath shows up and screams out deal with me.  My feeling is that God has not brought you this far to let a giant kill you.  God will give you the victory just like he did David.  You got to rejoice and have fun.  Neh 8:10 the joy of the Lord is my strength.  Even in the worst storms of life there is some joy to be found.  What a blessing it is to be apart of such a wonderful church and wonderul people who love Jesus.  Even in the storms of life there is joy.  I know Jesus saved me and I know my home is in heaven.  Just for those two facts i will forever be joyously grateful.�

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