tragedy?????

yeah...so, um....
Someone broke into our church and stole computers and the contents of the safe and then torched it!
It could have been much worse, I know, the whole building could have gone down, it didn't.
As it is, the offices are completely gone and the the whole building has extensive smoke damage....I guess, I think: bring it on!
Is that all ya got?
The timing was very interesting.
We had a youth conference scheduled for Saturday, which still went off, but I think the enemy didin't like what we were doing.
Mike Thibodeaux, the speaker, told the kids they were so precious to God that it scared the enemy, so he tried to distract us.....didn't work, PUNK!
When I saw the fire, I stopped in my tracks and said, "Do not gloat over me my enemy, though I have fallen, I will rise up, though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light."
Really, the whole thing put a heavenly perspective on the events for the day, and it was incredible.
We had a "sacred -space" team come and set up prayer stations.
These kids were from the Ethnos church in Portland and this old lady got learned by these precious children of God.
I was so blessed by them....and God protected them because they did not stay at our church that night of the fire, which I felt was odd, at the time.
God knew.....
You know what is cool?
We can't use our education building for awhile, and now we, the body, are coming together for worship and fellowship and encouragment...in our sanctuary....and God is there.....He is our sanctuary....we seek refuge from the storm...in Him....our Sanctuary.
The church is not a building.
Thank you for that reminder.