One more thing!

Hey again.  I bet you didn't think you'd hear from me this quickly.  I just wanted to share something with you very quickly and please DON'T TAKE IT THE WRONG WAY, please.  I want to share this because of how great everything worked out to the glory of God. 

The way I see it this morning was a miracle and a great work of God's protection!  Not, woe is us and look at what could have happened.  It is what did happen that matters the most.  Do I have you on the edge of your seats?!?!?  Hehe.  Good.

So here we go.  There once was a tree, growing happily amongst its friends.  It grew for years and years until one day this crazy guy came along and chopped down all its friends.  Little Ashy (let's call it that) cried for his little friends but also sighed a sigh of relief that it could still grow and get bigger.  Well, the years were not really friendly to little Ashy.  It did grow but it also became bug infested.  Little critters started eating at its bark and burrowing under its skin.  It became all itchy.  The man with the chain saw and his annoying people started building this house right there.

One day, the man came out to inspect Ashy.  He didn't like the fact that Ashy was too close to his saw mill and also he thought that the tree would take out the house if it ever became more diseased.  So, he decided to take it down.

This morning we took it down.  Sean was off from work and he and Tom set up the tree making sure that they tied it off to go away from the house.  We prayed (really good thing too) and he asked us to leave the house as soon as we heard the chain saw start.  Chain saw starts, and we kind of run out of the house.  Sean is watching the tree with it tied off toward him.  The rest of us sit down among our cold frames and watch and pray.  The wind was all wrong!  It was pushing little Ashy toward the house!  Tom waited, I prayed, as he watched the leaves.  At some point the wind shifted and he decided to slowly make his final cut.  The chains saw has a new blade and it cut through little Ashy like butter.  As the tree started going, all I could see that it was going the opposite direction we wanted it to.  It fell instead toward the house!  Ever so slowly.  It was like I saw the last three years flash before my eyes (not really, but kind of).  Tom was running in the direction the tree was falling as well!  As soon as the thing hit the ground Sean was sprinting toward the tree and Tom was yelling he was fine.  The tree... well the house...

Damage assessment!

And this is where I am so thankful and that this is such a miracle, such a provision of God.  We can look at this and say, the tree hit the house!  Yup, it did.  Natasha ran into the house and checked all the windows.

From the first floor

None of them were broken.  The house was still standing.  The foundation was not broken, the Tyvec was just scratched.  Only one of the basement windows had its molding broken.  Tom already fixed that. 

It looks pretty bad on the outside

Logan was really excited and happy and was bounding around singing.  I just sat quietly on Ashy's big trunk.  Ashy is pretty huge.  It will give us beautiful floor boards.  The rest will be great wood for burning.  As I sat there I contemplated the joy I felt.  No, I was not hopping around but the tree had fallen without causing any major damage.  A couple feet to the left and it could have take out the house.  A couple of feet to the right and it could have taken out our generator.  It didn't even touch the bikes.  It missed Tom's saw mill completely.  How could I not have been thankful and praising the great God of the universe. 

The way I see it, everything worked out for good.  There is a verse in the bible, "All things work for good for those who are in Christ Jesus".  I don't know where that is right now, but it sure is true.

So I felt that this is really a cool story to share.  All the brush is cut up and in a pile.  The tree fell so that we can put it right onto the saw mill without a problem.  It will give us a lot of board length because the tree was nice and straight.  Tom would have had to have taken it down eventually or it would have fallen onto the house.  It was naturally inclined to do so.  So controlled, it came down and landed where it was supposed to.  I still am in a little bit of awe of what happened.

This does not mean that we are going to throw in the towel and move back to CT and buy a home and all that.  This does not mean that Tom and Sean are done taking down trees (Sean is doing that right now for the nice lady Natasha works with).  It means that we will forge ahead full steam ahead and whatever happens, God has our back! Amen on that!!!

I hope you have a good day.