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'Home' can never be taken from you
It was June 23, 2012, and I had just called my husband while on the way home from my annual Christian Science association meeting. He told me we were on mandatory evacuation from our house in Mountain Shadows, Colorado Springs, because of the Waldo Canyon fire. He’d pulled together a few days’ worth of clothing, but we didn’t anticipate being gone very long. We didn’t really think the fire would affect our neighborhood.
So, we got the dogs and the rest of our things to the car; and as I took one last look around the house, I quietly said, “God, the house is in Your hands.” We drove down the street for a couple of miles and checked into a local motel.
About a day later, police escorts allowed us to return home (for 30 minutes only) to check on the status of our home, as well as grab any belongings we could. A portion of the house had been burned—about 20 percent—but I continued to feel gratitude for the policemen who were watching over the neighborhood and the firefighters who were risking their lives to protect our homes.
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