The Story
I plan on writing it this weekend.
I've avoided it up until now. I've given brief overviews and a few glimpses, but the entire timeline, all the details of the story - the Gomez family's story of the "Escape From New Orleans" - that I haven't put completely into words.
I realize it sounds like the title of a bad movie...I only wish it was.
Our blended "family" went grocery shopping this afternoon. It's been a long time since Amy and I loaded up two grocery carts with food and clothing, but we've laid in enough supplies to last for a long while - even with two teenagers in the house.
Ana and I also stopped by the drug store and picked up her pictures from her family's final days in New Orleans, including a few shots of their travails taken before her camera got wet.
At some point this weekend I'm going to scan some of those photos - making sure I have the facts straight - then I'll do what I've been avoiding... try to put it down in writing where it will seem more real.
Ana, Lee and John' have no trouble talking about it...Amy and I have trouble hearing them...imagining it all.
The photographs remove all aspects of imagination from the picture. I won't to write too many words.
It's odd, as I have been writing this my mind wandered back to the origins of the Bible. I think about how those "stories" were spoken aloud, passed on from generation to generation...until someone wrote them down.
I suppose those "stories" became more "real" for a lot of people at that point too.
The Gomez family story is coming...
Thank God someone took the time to write down the Bible stories - I wouldn't be able to tell this other story without it.
posted by Michael
©The Main Point by Michael Main
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Doug and I are very much looking forward to the pictures and the story. The Gomez family deserves to have their story chronicled, Michael. They will treasure your written words, I know...
I am anticipating their story. Since all of this I've found the sharing of our stories all different but similar, has been a sort of therapy.
I've heard some really amazing things from my friends that stayed through it and escaped the aftermath of it.
Is the Gomez Family going to return?
There is a lot of things that are "fluid" in the Gomez family situation. John' doesn't want to go back..ever. He's happy and doing okay in school. His Mom doesn't want him to have to change schools anymore, but finding a permanent place for them to live in the same high school district is going to be tough.
Ana is unsure. She wants her family whole, something she's coming to realize may not be possible.
Jose calls occasionally but I'm unsure of his plans.
Ana and Lee are likely to go back to New Orleans next weekend to see what they can salvage from their home. Then they will come back here. Amy and I are committed to making this work, we feel God calling us to this family so we're going to listen and try to be obedient to God.
=MM
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