Thankful!

Today I have been counting my blessings! As I drove Jacque, Sean and Brie to the Nashville airport Sunday morning after the big Derby weekend, it was raining so hard I could barely see a few car links in front of me. It had rained for a few days, but the thought never crossed my mind that it would flood. I mean does flooding ever really cross your mind...it rains all the time. But what I saw on Sunday was unreal....highways with water raging across, exits closed with water running under the overpass like it was a river not a road underneath and cars in water up to the top of the windows. Things you only see on the news, until now. Returning from the airport was a maze as I don't know where I am going without following the direct route and having to detour around flooded highways. I drive through the parking lot of the Opry Mills Mall and the famous Opry Land where the water keeps rising around us. I called Clint telling him I might go sit the storm out in the mall....
Today I hear that the mall had water throughout and the Opry Hotel had water up to the first balcony levels. So as I look back at myself sitting in the line of traffic waiting about 30 minutes to get through the detour I think, "Thank goodness I didn't go into that mall!" Someone above was looking out for me!
I have seen homes here in Bowling Green sitting in 4-5 feet of water, a newly constructed church in even deeper water and I think of how truly lucky the "Bowen Crew" is today! Our little pond rose into our back yard enough to make the boys think it was a "lake" and they kept saying how they hoped it stayed that way! They ran through the water, fished in it and chased the turtles around on the banks. All the while, none of us knowing the devistation taking place a few miles away.
Today I am counting my blessings! We are safe, heatlhy and happy. I am keeping flood victoms in my thoughts!