I used to like rain a lot….

… not anymore.  It has been sun shiny for a few days, but now rain is here again.  I cannot help but get worried over the flood coming in again.  Three weeks since Ondoy, we still aren’t done cleaning up.  Our resources aren’t the lone things that are exhausted, we are too.  Praying that the Lord’s hand will spare us from another calamity again.  Apparently,  I am not alone. A lot of friends get shaken by incessant rains.  I cannot help but feel helpless.  Even as the government is doing its job in collecting all the debris, garbages that were collected after the storm, they can only do so much.  It even took several days before the dump truck was finally able to reach our home.  Even if they would come every single day,  they would only visit 4 different houses and they are already filled up.  That’s how bad the storm has gotten to our place. But I am comforted by the same words God spoke to my heart even as I was getting weary on my upcoming childbirth, even if we took birth classes at that.

Isaiah 41:10 “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

Three weeks after and we’re still not done with the clean up. Even though I’m not as stressed as I was some weeks back, I still haven’t gotten my appetite back. My own mother has noticed that I’m losing weight, she might have thought I was seriously on some best slimming pills. But truth is, this is nothing but physical exhaustion.