“Gather round the fire, my children, and let me tell you the story of the People of the Just Tree Damage.”
All in Tornado Tracts
Here I Raise Mine Ebenezer
“In my previous post, I shared some of those instances that reminded me how God’s Holy Spirit encourages, empowers, and sustains us through such times. But as I stood looking at the overturned gravestones, my first reaction was not to recall those things, but instead to feel the full pain of what we were going through. To weep at how those stones of remembrance were overturned.”
The Whirlwind and the Whisper
“ In times like this we have big questions. And sometimes we say careless things, like “God was watching out for me.” But what I know is that in tornadoes, the people in houses who didn’t get hit were praying. And the people who were in houses that did get hit were also praying. Times like these cause us to wonder where God is in the midst of tragedy. And that is exactly what the Book of Job is confronting – the capricious nature of life and loss. “