Drenched in Mercy

During the hurricane, we have been beyond blessed to have updates from a friend of ours who works at ABC 13 in Houston.  Travis and his wife are incredibly dear to us.  Today Travis sent us another update.  I asked him if I could pass it along.  His email brought tears to our eyes.  God has been rich in mercy towards Port-au-Prince.  We could not be more grateful for His goodness.

So many of you have been praying.  I hope this encourages you as well.

From Travis....

A quick update on the storm.  It looks like the absolute best case possible for Port-Au-Prince, given the circumstances.  You see, there’s a place within the dirty side of a hurricane I call a “happy medium.”  This isn’t a real weather term, just the way I’d describe it to a non-meteorologist.

If you’re too close to the center, you get whacked with torrential rains and damaging winds.  If you’re too far from the center, you get stuck in several hours worth of drenching tropical showers.  But there’s a happy medium, right in between the two, that spares you the high winds AND the continuous onslaught of heavy rains.  That’s where Port-Au-Prince finds itself today.  Tomas is collapsing rapidly this afternoon, and while you’ll still get some heavy rain at times the next few days, you’ll likely catch large breaks in between those heavy spurts.

I know it’s still bad, but if the storm were 100 miles farther away or 100 miles closer it would have been unbelievably worse.  One hundred miles may seem like a long distance, but on a planet this size, that’s a hair-width.  That’s threading a needle.  What I guess I’m trying to say is, there’s a message of mercy somewhere in this.