When the news becomes personal

I was scheduled this morning to have an online meeting with a consultant who has been helping me figure out how to use my business Facebook page to more effectively reach my customers. He’s usually on time. As it was approaching 11:00 my time, I wrote to ask if we were meeting. In response, I got an email with just a picture.

I thought he’d done some special camera technique, like making it sepia-toned or something.

I wrote to him and asked him if that was a shot out of his front window, and he said, “Yes, ma’am.” Still, nothing was said about our meeting, so I called him. I asked him if we were going to meet, and he said, “Oh, didn’t you get my email?”

I said, “I got the picture you sent, but there was no message.” He said he’d taken the picture out his front window at 8:00 this morning when it would usually be bright outside. His email was supposed to have told me that he couldn’t meet with me this morning because burning ashes were falling from the sky and what I saw in the picture was thick smoke. He said fires were bearing down on his area and he and his wife were packing things up for their 6-month-old and their 3-year-old babies before evacuating their home.

After we hung up, I looked up the area code 530 and found that it’s in the Sacramento valley. Please pray with me for Marcus Anderson and his family as well as all the other families affected by the fires in California!

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