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They may be happening to you without you knowing. If anyone has ever said you snored loudly or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability, and concentration issues, it may be due to OSA. OSA is a serious condition where your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation. Learn more at don'tsleep on OSA.com. This information is provided by Lilly, a medicine company.
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Visit Bluvicto.com to learn more. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories. And we tell stories about everything here on this show, including yours. Send them to ouramericanstories.com. They're some of our favorites, and man, they just keep coming.
Up next we have a piece from one of our regular contributors, Stephen Raciniak. This piece was published in his local newspaper. It's about a devastating flash flood that severely damaged Stephen's church. and the surprising response from the community. Stephen asked the director of music at the Packanak Community Church, Daniel Mullins, to read the story for us.
Here's Daniel. It was an image that I just couldn't shake. The residents of Hooville had come together on that Christmas morning, knowing full well that overnight the Grinch had absconded with their gifts. but still they gathered, as a community, in faith and hope and love. all the while choosing to look beyond the previous night's sombre circumstances.
Focusing instead On the present. Focusing on what needed to be done, and most importantly, focusing on everything that truly mattered. I couldn't help but notice the similarities between Doctor Seuss's imaginary morning in the book How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the real life morning at the Pakinack Community Church. where just fourteen hours earlier a sudden flash flood had triggered unbelievably powerful waves of dirt filled water containing copious amounts of mulch, leaves, and logs, to come crashing through the church's downstairs windows. and likewise through the windows of the attached cooperative nursery school.
It was a flood so intense and so fast-moving that within seconds it had completely destroyed the church offices. classrooms, files, and everything else in its path. The volunteers arrived that sunny Monday morning at Mass. congregants and extended family members. parents whose children attended the school, and their teachers too.
assorted friends and neighbors, contractors, volunteering their time and expertise, so many people. many of whom we didn't know. all responding to lend a hand. They came out that morning with buckets and mops, with boots and bleach, with cases of water and food. all wishing to help.
to save the place where they'd been confirmed, or married, or attended scout meetings, where their food pantry donations helped to feed the hungry, and where their used books were given a second life. with less fortunate children. A place where the youngest members of the congregation were baptized. or, later in life, memorialized. It was a place that for so long had meant so much to so many.
And so They came. And just like the residents of Whoville. rather than reflecting upon the events of the previous night, they simply got down to the business of addressing what it was that had brought them together in the first place. They shoveled and swept away the mud that was now littered with pages of sheep music from church programmes and pageants past. They hoisted files and furniture, children's books and Bibles, carpets and pieces of the walls.
computers and a copier all now ruined and banished to an ever growing mountain of soggy wet, contaminated trash just outside the breezeway and school entrances. But But maybe. Most surprisingly of all, in the school where volunteers were already engaged in the early stages of clean up. and likewise throughout the downstairs of the formerly flooded church. there could be heard the sounds of laughter.
of talking and of teamwork. The volunteers, sweaty and mud-covered, were creating miracles by the minute. reclaiming what had been damaged and what could be salvaged. all the while acknowledging that for as bad as it was, It could have been worse. Oddly enough, and insomuch as it would have been justified, there were no tears shed that morning in the fictional village of Houville.
or likewise that morning in the real world, in a place called the Pakanac Community Church. But of course, many of us came close. Surveying the moving army of muddied volunteers in motion from just outside the building. One church elder admitted to me how much he felt like crying. But in truth, his emotions weren't the result of any damages done.
Instead, he said They had everything to do with the tremendous outpouring of love and support that the two of us, even as we stood there, were witnessing. He added that when his tears begin, as he knew they eventually would, What we were watching. would be the reason. I completely understood. The work is ongoing and that's okay.
but until the restoration is complete and a sense of normalcy one day returns. I know that. At least for a while, a certain image will never be far from my thoughts. And who could have ever thought That a children's story presented in rhymed verse. could have provided such a relevant message of hope For so many volunteers doing such remarkable things at my church.
Lessons learned. From Whoville. Imagine that. And a special thanks. To Daniel Mullins, the director of music at the Pakinak Community Church, for performing that piece.
And my goodness, these kinds of stories we love to tell. And those tears that were being shed wasn't because of the damage and carnage they'd seen. but because of the volunteerism and the grace and love. That they were witnessing, and that happens across this great country all the time, every day. And we love bringing stories like this.
to America and across this great country. Lessons from Whoville here on Our American Story. Lee Habib here, and I'd like to encourage you to subscribe to Our American Stories on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, Spotify, or wherever you get our podcasts. Any story you missed or want to hear again can be found there daily. Again, Please subscribe to the Our American Stories podcast on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or anywhere you get your podcasts.
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They may be happening to you without you knowing. If anyone has ever said you snored loudly or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability, and concentration issues, it may be due to OSA. OSA is a serious condition where your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation. Learn more at don'tsleep on OSA.com. This information is provided by Lilly, a medicine company.
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