Simplicity, chaos, but so much love!

As I start this blog, there are sirens running down 231. I say a quick prayer that God keeps the emergency service workers safe and that wherever they are running, there is a better outcome than what took place on Monday afternoon in Terre Haute. Then my thoughts run to the family and friends of Officer Brent Long in Terre Haute. Such a terrible situation and my heart aches for his wife and children.

It's times like this that I really want to thank all of the police officers, along with all other EMS workers (military, fire, etc.) as we often forget how much they really do put on the line. Right after this terrible event on Monday, there was a storm of status changes of Facebook, talking about how he got up and went to work without knowing what would happen. I wish I could find and copy it to this blog, but I cannot. It was sad and humbling to see so many people acknowledge what Officer Long did that day, along with his K9 Shadow and the other officers present. I just read in an article that Long's wife is a dispatcher, and was working when this situation occured and cannot imagine what she endured on Monday. While I do not know her name, I continue to lift her up in prayer daily.

With Adam being a state trooper, things like this hit close to home. Many, many people in our area feel as though police work is easy because we do not have truly dangerous crime here. That, especially in the Midwest, police work is easy because it's basically traffic work. Well clearly that is not the case. To those who feel this way, don't assume anything, espeically that you know what our police men and women encounter or what their job is like. Like the old adage "until you've walked a mile in their shoes" you know the rest!

We need to all remember that we are not guaranteed that anything "is as it seems" and that life is never "easy", especially for police officers. These police officers, all police officers, put themselves in situations of the unknown willingly, on a daily basis, to help serve and protect all of us. Can you imagine what they have to do to mentally prepare themselves for going to work everyday? To go to work not knowing what the day holds? To prepare themselves for all of the "what if's" they may encounter in that shift? I, for one, cannot. I cannot imagine. I don't want to imagine. I just want to say thanks. Thank you to all of you!

Many of you saw Adam on the news Monday night and called, text, messaged a word of prayer that he was safe (to clarify, he was not one of the original officers there). I want to say thanks to all you. Thank you to all who pray for his safety continually. Adam is just one of many, please pray for them all. Please pray for the Long family and for the Terre Haute P.D. in their time of mourning.