by Mark Gordon
When all is Gone… Redefine ALL!
Well I thought I should write a blog on our weekend adventure… if you have not heard our Condo was completely destroyed by fire… ‘all’ is gone, we escaped with PJ’s, keys and one laptop… odd what you grab as you run out the door. At about 10:30 Sandi and I were sitting watching TV and I noticed in the reflection on the TV screen, flames behind me, I turned around to see flames swirling out of my neighbor’s apartment and into ours… I yelled to Sandi to get up and out (although she just had to have a look), the flames were coming fast and we left our door and began banging on others doors, and pulled the fire alarm with another guy, btw I called 911 but it was busy… So we went throughout the building starting with our floor and banged on doors and sent stunned people to exits. We came across an elderly couple still in their apartment who needed a lot of help in getting out but they were safe. In fact ‘all’ people got out. We are very grateful for that! As the night went on the fire built in strength and more and more trucks and firefighters came. It was surreal to say the least. We stood and watch ‘all’ our stuff go up in flames!
Eventually we were sent to the Salvation Army where ESS, Red Cross and Salvation Army teams were amazing. In fact let me stop here and just say THANK YOU to all the 1st responders they did a great job!! Everyone involved was amazing including my neighbors who were shocked but stayed calm. Our family were on scene within minutes and our church family activated help and prayer right away! Friends from many years sent messages of love and support, even friends of friends and of my kids were sending love and some even showed up at the Salvation Army to see if they could do anything!! AMAZING!!!
You see that is the point of this BLOG/Note we did not lose ‘all’ WE GAINED ‘ALL’ ! We gained love and support, and a whole community coming together to help us! In our society today our ‘ALL’ is focused on the wrong things! Our possessions are not our ‘all’ our relationship are, our community is, God’s love manifesting through people in tragedy is the true ‘ALL’ we each possess!!! We have our lives and that is awesome but we don’t fear death because of the love we have in God! What is better than our lives being spared in this circumstance is the ‘life’ that was shared through your kindness and love!! So thank you for changing my definition of ‘ALL’!!! We have gained far more then we have lost today!!!
Sandi, Jenna and I, along with our other kids Justen & Kristin and Jelene and Zach THANK YOU for your love and support and especially thank GOD for His peace and Love!!!
Now it’s time for a NEW BEGINNING What an adventure!!!
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