Beginning And End

It was a Tuesday morning the day I was born. The weather was normal I guess you could say but the day would change and was designed to set up the beginning of a major tornado outbreak. The tornado outbreak of April 3, 1974 through April 4, 1974 is recorded as one of the most intense widespread tornado outbreaks in history. Between April 3rd and April 4th, 148 tornadoes spanned 13 states producing almost 900 square miles of damage in less than 18 hours.

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My Mom has never told me about the weather on the day I was born nor have we talked about this major tornado outbreak. I am a weather enthusiast a/k/a weather nut and I have done a little research on the weather the day I was born. As I searched and read about the weather that day I came across information about this major tornado outbreak. The information about these days is amazing to me. At one point there were 15 destructive tornadoes occuring at the exact same time. Most tornadoes lasted approximately 40 minutes but there was one that lasted for 2 hours and 15 minutes! During this outbreak 315 people lost their lives. Here I was beginning my life while others were losing theirs.

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My entrance into the world was with a bang and my life has been full of ups and downs and twists and turns. I guess if someone googled my life they would find that I have often been a tornado myself, tearing up everything in my path. I have done things that were destructive, hurt people, changed my course in mid-stream, exploded over absolutely nothing and then calmed down to only look back and see the devestation that I created. But, if the reader just keeps reading he will come to a place in my history when all of that changed. All the storms stopped raging, no more tornadoes, no more destruction. Just a woman who was saved by God's grace and found the love and peace she had been running from/searching for her entire life.

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The first verse of the Bible is Genesis 1:1. It says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The last verse of the Bible is Revelation 22:21. It says "The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen." I find that very interesting. In the beginning God created all things, he created you and then in the end his grace is with you! Pretty amazing how God works ain't it? Everything has a purpose in God's plan, everyone has a purpose in God's plan, nothing is by mistake and nothing is by chance!