A Lion in the Tunnel

It starts quiet. Then grows louder and louder as the minuets pass. A slow rumble. Then a loud explosion reverberates through the whole sky. Another burst answers the first and the conversation continues. I’d love to go up on the roof right now. It’s so tempting. But we’re by far the tallest building around and I’m not quite sure if they have a lightning rod. So, I decided to enjoy it at my window. I feel like I have a huge strobe light all around me. It’s constant lightning. When I see the lightning bolts, they seem to linger in the sky for a few seconds. After they burst, the remains look like embers glowing in a fire. The small glowing spots disappear as they fall out of the sky. The thunder soon follows. It sounds like a huge lion roaring in a tunnel. It echos through the sky and I feel it rumbling in my chest. What a fantastic storm. The lightning continues to flash, and then the rain starts to pick up. I hear the wind growing loader and loader as it howls trying to get through my windows. The rain comes with it. All of a sudden rain starts hammering my windows. Some manages to sneak through the cracks. My view becomes blurred as water pours onto the glass. With the rain comes a wonderful fresh smell. The dirt is being washed away and the scent comes sweetly into my room. The rain only lasts for a few minuets but then the wind grows stronger. Screaming at me to let it inside. I LOVE THIS!!!. Our door doesn’t have a latch on it so we have to shut it with a table up against it to keep it from opening. But this wind forces the door open making the table squeak across the floor. I go to shut the door and lean my whole body weight up against the door. And guess what!? The wind still pushes the door open!!! This is incredible. Can I just say I love storms. Well, maybe that’s an understatement! The wind lasts a while. But too soon after it starts, it begins to die down. The lightning goes away and the thunder follows close behind. The rain stops giving the plants a much needed shower, and the wind slinks away into the night. 

What a storm! Just like the rain making the earth fresh and clean, my soul has been renewed and my joy is heaping! Thanks for the epic reminders of your love, God! My heart overflows.