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08-19-2006, 03:30 PM
I had a moment or event a couple of weeks ago that I wanted to share. I've been playing it over and over again in my head and it has remained so clear with me that I must share it with you.
It was Saturday afternoon and I decided to go grocery shopping instead of waisting my Sunday after church doing it since it usually takes me 3 hrs or so. The weather was fine when I left the house, but its summer and as usually with the south and the heat, we can have a thunderstorm very quickly usually in the late afternoon. While in the store, I heard the thunder and decided to go and get my umbrella out of my car before it started its down pour. When I walked out and looked at those clouds, they just made me nervous, so black and everywhere. When I got back inside, the clouds opened up and the rain was coming down sideways! The power was quickly fading in and out. The crackling of lightening was all around us. As luck would have it, I only had one more thing to get on my list or I would have stayed shopping through that strorm. I am sooo glad I carry a golf size umbrella because I really needed it. I barely got wet and was quickly in my car. When I started my car, I grabbed the rosary (that my sister purchased for me at the Vatican & had blessed for me by Pope Benedict) and a necklace my husband got for me in Mexico that has a cross with a cherub with a holding a guitar--it reminds me of my father, I said a prayer and asked both of them to guide me home safely amid this storm of mother nature.
I could barely see two inches in front of me and the lightening was striking within yards of my car. The hair on the back of my neck was beginning to stand up. From the grocery store to my house was less than a mile, but for the first time ever, I really thought I was not going to make. I asked my father, was he going to protect or be there for me if ligthening struck my car. That's how scared I was. When its seconds, Psalm 23 started going over & over in my head " Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." I drove as fast (with extreme caution ;) ) as I could, in rain soaked roads, determined to get home. I pulled in on my street an lightening still clashed all around me. I swore it hit a transformer above my car but I was not going to stop. I could see my house and I was going to make it. I pulled into my driveway, open my garage door, ran up in my bedroom and cried for about 10 minutes straight. I was shaking from head to toe. My husband told me the power in the house came on just as I pulled into the driveway (which is why my garage opener worked) and went back out as I came in the house.
Psalm 23 was my father's favorite passage in the bible. I haven't thought of that passage in years. I haven't heard it said out loud since he read it to me. Before I was 3 years old I could recite it word for word. He and I used to sit together and practice it. He always told me that whenever I need anything from God to think of this passage and I can find answers. That Saturday, I found answers not only from God but from him as well.
It was Saturday afternoon and I decided to go grocery shopping instead of waisting my Sunday after church doing it since it usually takes me 3 hrs or so. The weather was fine when I left the house, but its summer and as usually with the south and the heat, we can have a thunderstorm very quickly usually in the late afternoon. While in the store, I heard the thunder and decided to go and get my umbrella out of my car before it started its down pour. When I walked out and looked at those clouds, they just made me nervous, so black and everywhere. When I got back inside, the clouds opened up and the rain was coming down sideways! The power was quickly fading in and out. The crackling of lightening was all around us. As luck would have it, I only had one more thing to get on my list or I would have stayed shopping through that strorm. I am sooo glad I carry a golf size umbrella because I really needed it. I barely got wet and was quickly in my car. When I started my car, I grabbed the rosary (that my sister purchased for me at the Vatican & had blessed for me by Pope Benedict) and a necklace my husband got for me in Mexico that has a cross with a cherub with a holding a guitar--it reminds me of my father, I said a prayer and asked both of them to guide me home safely amid this storm of mother nature.
I could barely see two inches in front of me and the lightening was striking within yards of my car. The hair on the back of my neck was beginning to stand up. From the grocery store to my house was less than a mile, but for the first time ever, I really thought I was not going to make. I asked my father, was he going to protect or be there for me if ligthening struck my car. That's how scared I was. When its seconds, Psalm 23 started going over & over in my head " Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." I drove as fast (with extreme caution ;) ) as I could, in rain soaked roads, determined to get home. I pulled in on my street an lightening still clashed all around me. I swore it hit a transformer above my car but I was not going to stop. I could see my house and I was going to make it. I pulled into my driveway, open my garage door, ran up in my bedroom and cried for about 10 minutes straight. I was shaking from head to toe. My husband told me the power in the house came on just as I pulled into the driveway (which is why my garage opener worked) and went back out as I came in the house.
Psalm 23 was my father's favorite passage in the bible. I haven't thought of that passage in years. I haven't heard it said out loud since he read it to me. Before I was 3 years old I could recite it word for word. He and I used to sit together and practice it. He always told me that whenever I need anything from God to think of this passage and I can find answers. That Saturday, I found answers not only from God but from him as well.