Dolly Story

Well everyone is putting up their Hurricane Dolly stories, & everywhere we go people are just talking about their home damages, tree damages, water damages. Well here is one of mine. As we are coming back home from my parents house, because that is where we spent the night for the hurricane. When I was coming up on my house, I had this knot in my stomach anticipating the damage report. Well I will skip the damage report, because I have pictures that i will post later. Anyway we went to Lowes to get some supplies which included a tarp for my roof. This tarp was about $120, it covers 30 feet X 50 feet, which is huge it covers the whole house, & has some tarp leftover I don't know what to do with it, so I just rolled it up next to the house. As I am on the roof struggling with this tarp asking God to help me, because I couldn't do it alone. My wife & Mike were picking up all the tree branches, & the roof shingles that came off. My wife asked if she could help, but she wears skirts so she can't be up on the roof. Then my neighbor on J street an older man comes to my house to ask if he can help, he has a machete in his hand, & I told him thanks so he starts cutting trees branches in smaller pieces I had a huge tree branch right on my drive way. As I am struggling with this tarp, I see my other neighbors all around just drinking beer, & chilling out, but I don't say nothing. Then my wife is passing by , & starts telling me that these men should be embarrassed for not helping out. Then about 5 minutes later they start coming over to help, & within 10 minutes I kid you not they finished all the tree branches. I am still on the roof by myself struggling with this enormous tarp, praying & asking God for some help to stop the wind. All of a sudden a gust of wind passes by , & the tarp just layed down the way I needed it to be. My eyes got all watery, & I just said thank you Jesus. As if God had been trying to help me all along, I just wanted to do it my way. Man I could make a message out of this I probably will for the teenagers. Well I hmm, God & I finished the tarp & it has stayed on isn't God so good, through it all HE was there I was just so frustrated. I usually pray before I do anything, anything, work on the house, the car, anything around the yard, but this time I was just so over whelmed, with so much work around the house I forgot to pray. Sorry God. I just can't thank HIM enough for the things he does in my life. For the people he surrounds me with. And that is one of my Hurricane Dolly stories.