Prayers for the Philippines

Tonight I'm feeling overwhelmed with gratefulness....PapaMonkey and I just returned
from a week with some amazing people. We laughed...we cried...we danced...we laughed some more.
On the cruise ship....on the beach...wherever we ate or played.....there were always smiles.
We opened our hearts to each other, we laid out plans, and we continued this journey of living out our dreams. We were encouraged and loved on over and over.
We are so so blessed.....over and beyond what we could have ever expected.
But tonight...my heart is breaking too. For a man and his family.
You see, this past week, we got to know a man named Arnel. He was the waiter at our dinner table
every night on the cruise ship. Arnel wasn't just any old waiter. Arnel was and is an amazing, kind hearted, funny, and hard working man from the Philippines.
Over the course of the week, we got to know him little by little.....and by the last night, lets just say, we really got to know him :)
Arnel has a wife and 3 children back home. For 9 months, he works on the cruise ship.....without his family to go home to at night. He works far away to provide for his family.
He told us that night, that there was a big storm coming towards his homeland.
After watching the news....I can't stop wondering.....what must Arnel be feeling.
Will he even have any family left to go home to again? Will he have a home left to go back to? Will he ever see his wife and children again?
So tonight....I pray. I pray hard.....for the Philippines and their people.
Please join me in praying for them as well.
I know life here in the States isn't always grand and beautiful like we would desire.
But tonight....I feel like we have more than enough. We have so much to be grateful for.
Let's not forget to count each and every one of our blessings <3 p="">