Paradise
So to keep my children safe on the internet, I have always written that we lived in NorCal. No one knew where Paradise, Ca was anyways. Trying to explain our distance from LA or SF or "do you know where Sacramento is??" were just headaches.
However, since the fire swept through our hometown in November 2018, Paradise is on the map. And more so than Aaron Rodgers or Amber Sauer. People now react when they ask where you are from and they hear Paradise, Ca.
Yes, we lost our home.
5 friends died that day.
My husband's churches are still standing...both of them.
We want to rebuild, but they are making it so impossible.
Most of our children have now left California and we are here in temporary quarters, waiting on direction.
It is beautiful, it is devastating to drive 10 mins from the house and go through the chaos and constant changes to every street.
All our trees are being removed.
It is not the same. But we have hope. And we know who holds the ridge in His hands.
However, since the fire swept through our hometown in November 2018, Paradise is on the map. And more so than Aaron Rodgers or Amber Sauer. People now react when they ask where you are from and they hear Paradise, Ca.
Yes, we lost our home.
5 friends died that day.
My husband's churches are still standing...both of them.
We want to rebuild, but they are making it so impossible.
Most of our children have now left California and we are here in temporary quarters, waiting on direction.
It is beautiful, it is devastating to drive 10 mins from the house and go through the chaos and constant changes to every street.
All our trees are being removed.
It is not the same. But we have hope. And we know who holds the ridge in His hands.
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