Lessons and Lightning.

So in 3 weeks I will be back home. :)

So far this summer:
I've learned to appreciate cold weather.
I've learned trusting God is never easy.
I've seen the good bad and the ugly of a friendship gone sour
I've lived the fact that family is not just blood.
I've seen the reality of forgiveness, and the fact that because family is not limited to blood, forgiveness is always possible.
I've learned the wonder of a thunderstorm.

So off that last point, I just want to go off on it. My sisters are terrified of them. I don't remember ever being afraid, but I might have been... but not since I was 12. in the past 3 years they've been a way for me to think and pray. I sleep much more soundly with a storm.

I love this wonderful side of God's personality. NOw when you think of storms, most people think of the devastation they can leave. When I mentioned this to someone they said how can God, (who is loving and just) be seen in something so devastating?

But a storm isn't just that. In fact it isn't always that. A storm is... unpredictable, wild, racing, angry refreshing, renewing, healing, removing, eroding, filling, growing, powerful, intense, musical, systematic, logical, mathematic, poetic, beautiful, dangerous, an opportunity, you get the idea... it's... an oxymoron.

It's a wonderful thing. I stood on my driveway more then once this summer, just watching.

I like to think of it as God's "wild side" it seems crazy but I feel like he enjoys making Thunder and Lighting.

Katydid out.