A walk through the neighborhood

Today I spent the morning volunteering at our new church. We were trying to organize a Free childcare for the disaster relief efforts. We made up some flyers and hand delivered them to people in the Cornerstone neighborhood. WOW, what a sight. The news pictures, and even my pictures don't do it justice.
Everyone always hears how sporadic a tornado can be, ripping walls off of a dining room while leaving all the dishes on the table in tact, or destroying one house and 10 yards away not a shingle missing. That was a lot of what I saw today. There were some houses that were piles of lumber, others looked like they had little to no damage except windows and shingles missing, yet both had huge spray painted Red "X" with the letter "C" meaning condemned. I think if I drove up to my house and saw a pile, it wouldn't be nearly as heart breaking as driving up, seeing you house in the distance, thinking... "wow it looks like it faired pretty well compared to many, at least I can go get my stuff"... only to find the dreaded Red paint. Many of those houses acted like a pressure cooker, so structurally that are some of the most unstable houses.
The amazing part as we walked through the entire neighborhood, is we couldn't find one "victim" Everyone was very upbeat. You had trouble telling who lived there and who was the relief help.
Talking with our pastor, he said he has a whole list of supplies and people willing to be donated, and yet his Tornado Needs list has been empty from the first night. Including 30 hotel rooms and two empty condos, that he can't seem to fill. What an AMAZING blessing! Many people were evening saying how they are eating better with the free food then they would have ever had at home. The Salvation Army food truck is parked in the church parking lot and serving food from Restaurants at each meal. The first night they all had Outback Steakhouse.
In March our church prayed to see 1000 people at our Easter service in the parking lot. As Pastor Dave said, "we were all a little disappointed that we didn't' have that many, yet Thur night over 1100 people were fed in our church parking lot". And yesterday all the churches in town got together for a special worship service at the High School, which was packed at more then 1800!
God's timing is always Perfect!