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Power to the People!

We have power! Thankfully we have power right now, but over a million homes and businesses lost power Thursday night in the Puget Sound area. It's almost Sat night now and still no power for most of those people. A big storm blew threw with hard rain and wind gusts up to 65 mph in our area knocking out power all over the place. Jill and Tom and the kids are staying with us right now because they don't have power at their house. To make it worse the temperature dropped below freezing at nights so all the people without power are freezing.

One small effect in the big picture, but big in my life is the fact that our Church's building still has no power. This is the biggest music weekend of the year at Eastside. "The Music of Christmas" I've spent hours and hours and hours working on it. I've spent my days off in the office arranging music and planning. Not to mention all of the people who have comitted time and energy to it. But without power, we had to cancel it.

I kind of like it when things like this happen. You know, throws you off a little. I'm really bummed that we didn't get to play the music, but life goes on. Things like this give a little perspective of the big picture. Like how small I really am. And it brings home what's really important in life. Not everything important runs on electricity.

Top 10 Things About the Big Wind Storm Knocking Out Electricity:

10. Schools were canceled yet again due to weather.
9. Tom, Jill, Josiah and Alex stayed at our house for a couple days.
8. Sat night service at Eastside was awesome fun in the mod.
7. Everyone had something in common for a while so starting conversation was easy, even with strangers.
6. Our house still had electricity so I stayed up late watching season 5 of 24.
5. Lots of people didn't shower for days.
4. Didn't get a lot of work done.
3. No mail = no bills.
2. Tom made breakfast at our house in the morning. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
1. Rehearsing Handel's Messiah with no power in Eastside's auditorium. (More to come.)

There you have it. I guess I'm pretty thankful for what God's doing in the midst of chaos. Makes me love him more.

posted by Tim Oas @ 10:07 AM