Our home of 13 years was lost to a devastating wildfire in November of last year. We unfortunately were not home that morning when the fire crept up west from Corona, which made it hard for us to save our personal belongings. After being alerted by friends of the progression the fire has taken, we were barely able to reach our home 10 minutes before the fire got to it. That gave us just enough time to grab our photos, legal documents, some of my wife's jewelries and a few of our clothes. Our lives to say the least was destined to change that Saturday morning.
It was hard in the beginning to comprehend what happened to us. For my 14yr old son to lose the only home he has known since birth and for my wife to lose the place she has single-handedly nourished into a safe and comforting home for my son and I, could just very well be one of the most trying life's event that our family has faced. However, something else happened to us that Saturday morning - we became more of a family than ever before.
When you lose almost all of your material possessions in life, you get to see more clearly all of the non-material riches that you have always had. Your priorities begin to shift, you start appreciating simple things, you start making more time to sit at a local coffee house with your wife to just shoot the breeze, you start to enjoy conversations around the dinner table, you start to pay attention to your child's conversational stories about his day at school and.... you start praying to not ask back for all that you have lost... but to thank him for all of the things you have.
Our lives to say the least was destined to change that Saturday morning......
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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