The Start Of Something Big (cont)

So I went to bed knowing it was a storm due to my lights going out. But all in all, I didn't hear the wing blowing or see any real bright lightening flashes, it seemed like it wasn't a storm at all outside as i went to sleep and throughout the night. So I finished reading my Bible, conversing with God, and blew out my candles and slept peacefully through the night. My conversation mainly consisted of me asking Him for some more direction, some more insight amongst other questions. Begging Him to remove this hurtful feeling out of my system as fast as possible was on of my main concerns. As they say, be careful what you ask for sometimes, because you just might get them, and sometimes sooner then you think.
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I wake up and look outside and the Chinese Restaurant's sign was on the street. Yea, their store sign, which hangs just about level with the height of my room, was taken down by the storm last night. Still, I was like, that must have been some storm, but I didn't have any idea of the magnitude of that statement. As of now I don't remember if my electric was back on or not, I just remember going through my daily routine of working out, reading my bible and daily readings and getting ready to go to work. So I finally get outside and proceed to walk my mile to work and there are no cars driving on the road. So the roads closed and still I don't realize the magnitude. So I continue to walk to work and realize the mayhem this storm caused. Many large tree branches on top of cars, debris just everywhere, and the whole mile to work, the main road was closed.

So I get to work and my co-worker says "man you ok," I'm like "yea." I eventually find out that a tornado came through town. Yup, a tornado, which was later defined as a straight wind or something stupid. Whatever you call it I got some more details on its power when I received a phone call from my right hand man. He called to make sure I was alright, he was calling me most of the night but my phone was off and he said he drove through town and saw many tops of houses and buildings were taken off by the storm. So they were worried about me seeing as how I live on the top level of complex.
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So I look online and there are many pictures and articles about this tornado/straight wind that basically wrecked a lot of the town. As I look at all this stuff and as I talked with friends I realize that I really could be dead right now. What's even crazier than that is the fact that I really didn't even notice that it was a storm outside of the fact that my lights went out. All of this made me realize how precious each day it is and how much you should cherish it and not dwell on yesterday. So in correlation, I shouldn't let feelings of the past mess up today. I can't tell you how much brighter the sun was since then, or how much I appreciated the littlest of things, and how much more I reverted back to Smiley, which was my childhood nickname seeing as how I always had a smile on my face. Nothing bad really effected me, because somehow someway I would see or find some good in it.
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That night correlating with that morning was all the help I needed from God to set me straight. From that point on my goals were more concrete and detailed. My daily task were more in order and my discipline to the simple things proved to helped when it got to the bigger things. I basically kept myself busy with work, business, God and pursuing my dream. To be completely honest I don't remember much of talking to my ex for the rest of the summer from that point on. I think I have talked to her, but because of that sign I received from God, she became very low on my chart of things that could negatively harm my feelings. I really felt released from a cage of hurt and depression. From that day forward life was really fun, peaceful and for the most part positive. I just knew it would only get better as I stayed focus on improving my relationship with God. As I read daily, "as your soul prospers, so shall you."