Glad That's Over!

The weatherman got it right.  We actually did have a nor'easter come through.  They named it Storm Alfred.  "He" arrived Saturday, knocked out the power around 4pm and now (Thursday) there are still hundreds of thousands of people in CT without power. There are still power lines down in many places.  People are pulling their pickup trucks on the side of the highway and taking chainsaws and cutting down the fallen trees for firewood.  Andre, Sasha, and I slept in our house Saturday night, but Sunday and Monday we stayed at my brother Paul's house.  He has a generator and a woodstove so we had heat, refrigerator, and TV.  It was very hard to be out of my own home.  I am grateful for the help from my brother and from friends who let us shower at their house, and mom let us do laundry at her house.  I extended an invitation on facebook to all of my friends if they need a place to stay, a shower, a hot meal, to do laundry...they are welcome to my house.  It was a very good lesson in hospitality, patience, and gratitude.  We are fortunate that our power came back on Tuesday at 8 pm.  Many people still do not have power yet.  It is easy to be grateful now that I am back in my home with heat again.  I am supposed to be studying all of the muscles in the human body, but I need to take study breaks and this is one of them.  I am so full of gratitude today!  Praise be to God.