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When the Storm Breaks You Open -- But Not Apart!: Appreciating Life's Storms

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  The storm didn’t come to destroy your life—it came to reveal the life that could only be seen once everything else was stripped away. There are moments when fear roars so loudly that it strips life down to its rawest elements. A major storm like Melissa does not politely disrupt—it dismantles. Roofs torn away. Farms erased. Income gone. Water unsafe. Power silent. Banking frozen. Voices cut off from the world. And for some, the heaviest loss of all: people they loved, gone forever. In those moments, survival becomes the only language. And then—weeks later—something holy begins to stir. Lights return. Clean water flows again. Food shows up. Messages finally send. Help arrives—not only through supplies and money, but through something deeper: human hearts choosing to move toward suffering rather than away from it . Here is the truth we rarely say out loud: Destruction has a strange way of revealing who we really are—and what we truly trust. Loss does not become good. Death does not...