Last night my hometown, Batesville, had a huge thunderstorm. But the thing was, there wasn't really much rain, at least at first. My friends and I were actually sitting out on the my friend Georgia's deck during her mom's surprise 50th birthday party--which went splendidly--and suddenly clouds started moving in.
When we were first banished to the outside, the atmosphere was muggy, humid, hot, and sunny. We finally started getting used to the climate of the outdoors and got to conversation when suddenly these clouds, in about a span of ten minutes, blocked out the sun and brought on a very severe lightning storm.
One thing a few of my friends did was go dancing in the middle of a field. Well, I thought this was kind of stupid to be perfectly honest. I love them to death, but I didn't see the fun in being possibly struck down by lightning. Call me crazy. Eventually Carol (Georgia's Aunt) called them in when she realized they were dancing in the middle of a field, in a thunderstorm. Yay for responsible adults!
This whole scenario struck me this morning and I realized it can all be one giant metaphor. Life sometimes banishes us into situations we don't really want to be involved in, and things are rough. We struggle to make it through each day, but slowly we adjust to our new surroundings and scenarios. Then suddenly, everything shifts, and we can become caught in the middle of a spiraling twister of change, fear, anger, and pain. Adjusting to all of that can be hard enough as it is, but some of us don't even realize when we've started on the downward spiral until someone pulls us out of it. Only then do we realize what a dangerous minefield we were running in all along, and can only be grateful to those who pull us out.
Never forget that.
“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. (NIV)
-Proverbs 46:1-3
Saturday, August 13, 2011
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