Amazed

This is a weather forecast for Lake Erie where I live, the forecast was issued on Sunday morning the 23rd of December

...STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST MONDAY....OVERNIGHT...SOUTHWEST STORM FORCE WINDS TO 50 KNOTS. SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS AND SQUALLS. WAVES 17 TO 22 FEET.

.MONDAY...SOUTHWEST GALES TO 40 KNOTS BECOMING WEST. SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS. WAVES 15 TO 20 FEET.

I woke up Sunday morning at 5:30AM to the sound of wind blowing hard at the house from the southeast , our house basically faces SSE so it was hitting the house pretty hard. Our "windometer" was readying 48MPH , it was really loud and with the sound of the lake out front it was like standing next to a jet engine.

Now for those who don't know who might read this, my Husband is a Ship Captain so hes out on the lakes, along with many other ships ( something I never thought of when I lived in Vermont) I never imagined what a 15 to 20' wave looked like, never really thought about it, but go outside and look at the roof of your house, now imagine a wave that high...lots of them...

The wind, well yes we've all experience wind but again when you live on the shore of a lake, there is nothing in front of you to break the wind. Like when you stand in the shelter of a building to break the wind when your waiting for a bus or something, the house here is pretty much out in the opened so that wind was hitting us pretty hard.

I was worried for a few reasons, 1st one was my Husband and his crew of course out there in the storm, luckiy not on Lake Erie where this time the storm was to be the worst of all the Great Lakes but still in bad weather. 2ndly we have our house for sale here on the lake as we've decied to move back to Vermont to be closer to our family. I was worried with the wind that the house would be damaged in some way.

Well, I did what most Christian people will do when they are worried, I prayed, first I sent a request out to my Christian friends and to 4 different churches and then I went to church Christmas Sunday.

The wind switched direction as the weather forecast said it would to a direction where our house has more protection and no , there was no damage. But the most amazing thing is, my husbands ship, he never even had to anchor for the weather , of course My Husband weather routed to keep the Ship safe, but I find it amazing that while we were riding out the 50MPH winds here on Lake Erie, where his ship was on the biggest Lake on the Great lakes there was no wind hardly at all There was wind in the southern half of the Big Lake but in the north where his ship was riding he said, no wind, the lake..it was calm.......the company he works for said he was one of the only ships actually moving as most of the others were in parts of the lakes where the weather was too bad for them to move. They were anchored in Bays and rivers to stay out of the wind.

I sometimes wonder what I did to be so blessed, but I tell you I am so grateful and thankful to God for looking out for my Husband and I, if it wasn't for God I don't see how I ever would of met him in the first place and ever since then , well just amazing things in my life I have been witness to. Now I'm sure that our move to Vemont will go just as planned and I'll smile again and our blessings. Sometimes you just have to be reminded, and boy I sure was over this one.