Like a lot of people, I was going through a really tough time in my life and had some pretty “heavy” unanswered questions that were troubling me in my heart and soul.

 

I have always felt God loved me but I had real difficulty believing that anyone in the world loved me or that even church people loved me. I always had assurance that I was a “whosoever” person (John 3:16) and that God loved me as His own because I could hear him in my head and I could feel him in my heart but I really wanted proof and real answers to questions burning within me. I decided to ask for what I wanted. I wanted Him to show me He was real in this world and not just in my head and heart. I needed to know. You see, at the time, I was deeply broken-hearted.

 

One night I had a dream. When I woke up I went online and found this property for sale and within two weeks I had bought it ...I even paid cash for it! When I purchased the property, it was a literal dump site and at first I had to travel back and forth from South Florida to clean up the land and move the rubbish and debris to prepare the place for my permanent move. It was one tough job, I can tell you that!  It took me a month to move my things up from South Florida. It was like I couldn't eat or sleep until I got there. The energy was amazing! I felt it all over me moving me forward. I was being pushed to move faster and faster...get here, get here!

 

I fully moved in on the evening of Thursday, February 1st. 2007, after a very long drive. I had packed up my things, loaded the truck and drove the distance all by my self then I unpacked the U-Haul Truck as quickly as I could,  just putting my things outside in the backyard because it was a nice evening. I was so tired and I had to get the truck to U-Haul before they closed. I had a lot of trash and just yuck and filth to get out of this place...but I could feel and sense the beauty here, the love energy al around! Someone just needed to put love into it, I felt. The energy here just knocks my socks off, it is just so amazing. But I had a much bigger reason to work so hard on the place, I wanted to fix it up because I was looking for a place to invite God to hang out with me. I needed a friend. I knew no one in the Lake County area. I left everything in South Florida. I needed to get away. To start fresh. I determined that I would follow God, find a place that could use the love and the energy I had left in me and let God use me any way he needed to in this world. You see, I was deeply missing my Mom and needed to know if she made it to the other side and needed assurance she was with God and his son Jesus. I needed to know, so I figured I would ask God where he would like me to go and I would follow all the signs and energy that He would send to me and it it all lead me here.

 

Getting back to the story, as I said, I had just finished moving into the place that Thursday and the very next evening, Friday , Feb. 2, 2007, the Ground Hog Day Tornado hit!  Needless to say, after moving in for not even one whole night and then getting hit by a tornado, I was a bit freaked out. But believe it or not, I slept through the whole thing! God had protected me!  It was as if God put His hand over my little tiny house and barn and covered it while the storm came through. He was showing me “I am with you...”. I knew right then that I was on to something special.

 

I had so much rebuilding to do, so much work ahead of me and I was all by myself. I was so tired already but after the Tornado, I was too busy to think about anything but being grateful and surviving in the Forest. I was truly walking by faith and not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)

 

Yes, I wanted answers. I needed answers. So I prayed and prayed. I prayed for me, prayed for the folks that crossed over, prayed for the world and most of all I prayed to God to help those families who lost their loved ones in the Tornado. In all this praying I started to chat with God, like a friend and since then I have kept on chatting and praying  as I have been rebuilding, fixing, and cleaning up my part of the Forest, which, by the way, buffets the St. Frances Forest at along the back of my property...an amazing connection...a true synchronicity...full of good energy for you see, my precious mom's name was Frances. That just floored me. I was lead, truly led, step-by-step and God gets all the glory!

 

Now, let me conclude this story by showing how God let me know He was truly real and how He gave me assurance that my Mom was fine, and that Angels are real and that He does love me and how I, or any of us, are never alone.

 

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February 2, 2007 Central Florida Tornado Survey

Coverage of Feb. 2, 2007 Tornadoes -- OrlandoSentinel.com

 

I was very lucky, my stuff, all of it, flew away, but my home was still standing.

I believe 13 souls were killed that night from right on my same road.

 

This is what I saw when I went outside at first light...on Feb. 2, 2007

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