Calm before the Storm

Apparently Hurricane Charlie is headed my way in Clearwater Florida. We have seen the storm tack probablities on the news and listened to the concerns and evacuations called for. We already pretty well know we'll be without electricity for a while... Ah vacation.
but right now, the night before it comes up the Florida coast, the skys are fairly clear. There are thunderstorms in the distance, and some really dark clouds off to the west but the bay is calm .. they won't let you cross the bridge to the gulf as that part of the place has been evacuated.

we are safe. so they say..and we believe them. we have bread and peanut-butter and jelly and water and coke and India food from dinner left-over. So we should be fine with food. We have a radio and batteries and candles and matches and other stuff...

we have books to read and some work to do...and the computer has a four hour battery so we could use it for a while.

but it is odd somehow...knowing that winds of 100 plus mph are coming and rain....it is the calm before the storm...

but in the world of the faithful perhaps it seems more that life in general is the storm before the calm.

That before we understand that God's will is active and present in the world we live in the storm tossed all the time by the whims of the world...
and then we find the calm in the peace of knowing God loves us...

Live into that storm...it comes before the calm

God abide
Bobbie McGarey
@2004
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