It's been raining since about noon (it's 10pm now) and there are some small puddles around the yard. Since I haven't even lived here a month yet I don't know the local flood-prone spots. I can hear the wind picking up, and in about 4 hours it'll be right over me.
I've been anxious all day. The service I was to preach at tonight was cancelled because of the hurricane.
For one thing, it's been dark all day, and it would seem like any other gross, rainy day except that everyone knows WHY it's so gloomy outside and that it's about to get a lot worse. It's like being forced to sit and wait to have surgery you don't want, like a nose job or something. You know it's going to suck and then there's the aftermath: recovering, trying to get back to normal but things just aren't normal. Like maybe Monday it will be sunny as they predict, but there's gonna be trees down and water all over the yard and roads and power still out.
The power is trying to go out. Sigh. I keep thinking about the basement flooding, the food in the fridge (like the delicious pasta salad with chicken that I made yesterday--yum!). I filled the bathtub. Got matches and candles around the house. I've been anxiously eating, which is NOT a good thing. Too bad I haven't been anxiously doing exercises too! And you know how arthritis and injuries are affected by cold, moisture, and low-pressure systems? My knees have been bothering me all week. I'm 30!
I have some library books to read, one is a book I've been chasing down in paperback for at least two months but it hasn't been released in the United States yet. The other is a mystery. But I've been too anxious to sit and read!
ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech thee, of thy great goodness, to restrain those immoderate rains, wherewith thou hast afflicted us. And we pray thee to send us such seasonable weather, that the earth may, in due time, yield her increase for our use and benefit; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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