Monday, August 10, 2009

Beautiful Storms


Storms can be scary. Dark clouds gather. Some of them rotate. Winds whip the trees around. Lightning flashes make the emerging darkness eerily light, temporarily. The rain pours down, drenching everything and flooding the streets. We pray that the hail (and the trees) will not fall.
But storms also bring a welcome coolness this time of year, and the advancing phalanx of cumulonimbus clouds can be a sight to behold. My husband and I stood outside this evening, watching the clouds swirl as birds wind-surfed and the tree branches whipped around. It was great. We pray for all the typhoon victims as we watch the clouds swirl above, knowing our storms are small by comparison.

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