Running from the Storm....Amber
Today had a terrible start with a wonderful ending :)
I love running. I'm not sure why but it just feels nice to have your body moving. So I went for a run tonight on the roads behind my house (where there's only fields and trees and smelly lagoons). To the north(my right) there were these huge clouds coming and I could see the rain in the distance and I was heading right into this huge storm! the lightning looked like the Northen lights in reverse because they were dancing all over the sky! But I decided that it would be best not to run in the lightning and I took a left into the middle of someone's field. And all of a sudden it felt like the storm was chasing me because I could feel a few rain drops on the back of my calves and the thunder was sounding closer. So I ran a little faster...looked up and saw the moon straight ahead of me. When I was younger I loved to think that God was somewhere near the moon. Clarification: I did not pray/worship/offer any kind of cultic sacrifices to the moon, but I always talked to God at night outside so it was the light that was shinning. It felt SO amazing to be in the middle of this field running like I was back in Africa, amongst all this wild beauty, towards symbolically my God(again I don't worship moons...). Right when I got out of the field back onto a road I felt a few more rain drops on my lips and started to laugh. It could've downpoured right there and it would've been more than alright...but in the middle of this road in the middle of nowhere I felt so incredibly alive and close to my Saving King that 50 years in that moment would have been the gift I could ever recieve.
I'm so thankful that I can sit here and write about the gifts God gives me daily; just because they come daily and it's exciting the think about! And I'm so thankful I can read the things that are going on in my closest friend's life even though she seems worlds away! Ash I miss you!
I love running. I'm not sure why but it just feels nice to have your body moving. So I went for a run tonight on the roads behind my house (where there's only fields and trees and smelly lagoons). To the north(my right) there were these huge clouds coming and I could see the rain in the distance and I was heading right into this huge storm! the lightning looked like the Northen lights in reverse because they were dancing all over the sky! But I decided that it would be best not to run in the lightning and I took a left into the middle of someone's field. And all of a sudden it felt like the storm was chasing me because I could feel a few rain drops on the back of my calves and the thunder was sounding closer. So I ran a little faster...looked up and saw the moon straight ahead of me. When I was younger I loved to think that God was somewhere near the moon. Clarification: I did not pray/worship/offer any kind of cultic sacrifices to the moon, but I always talked to God at night outside so it was the light that was shinning. It felt SO amazing to be in the middle of this field running like I was back in Africa, amongst all this wild beauty, towards symbolically my God(again I don't worship moons...). Right when I got out of the field back onto a road I felt a few more rain drops on my lips and started to laugh. It could've downpoured right there and it would've been more than alright...but in the middle of this road in the middle of nowhere I felt so incredibly alive and close to my Saving King that 50 years in that moment would have been the gift I could ever recieve.
I'm so thankful that I can sit here and write about the gifts God gives me daily; just because they come daily and it's exciting the think about! And I'm so thankful I can read the things that are going on in my closest friend's life even though she seems worlds away! Ash I miss you!
posted by Ash-Am at 8:51 PM
1 Comments:
Moon worshipping!?!? I knew it! We are so blessed hey Am--that we get to enjoy other people's company, that we can watch a storm, or run, or write, or feel the rain. So many blessings taken forgranted. I am so thankful for you and for you letting Jesus teach you things and shine in you. I miss you Am--like usual. :D
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