When the cold winds blow

He sends his word and melts them; he makes the winds blow and the waters flow. Psalm 147:18

I am sort of scared that the stormy winds are going to break my window. The glass is rattling in the pane like there’s an earthquake and despite the seal, enough air is getting through to move my curtains. It’s not a pretty night out tonight. Rain and hail and thunder and now I think it’s cold enough that what’s coming down has turned to either ice or snow. Today was a long day of wind and rain and carefully driving through puddles and watching out for slick spots. It’s easy to grumble in a day like this, to think about how the cuffs of your pants are going to get wet and then your socks and pretty soon you’ll have ankle-based pneumonia and what will you do then?! It’s easy to look at flooding rivers and tornado warnings and think that things are out of control. But the reality is much more comforting, there is someone who has control over nature. Someone who causes the winds to blow and the water to flow.

There was a rainbow this afternoon that I spied on my way downtown. I called people to let them know and even pointed to the sky so my fellow drivers could  see. It was funny how excited we all got. A rainbow is just another aspect of God’s creation…although it’s a much prettier one than hail! But because of it’s beauty, it’s easy for us to thank God for seeing one…even though it has to rain first for it to even exist. It may be hard tonight for me to thank God for scary winds, but I can at least acknowledge that He is in control of them, and that is a truth that I am thankful for!