God's Fireworks

Recently at an Astros Game Braiden and I got to see their wonderful Friday Night Fireworks. This past weekend we experienced something even better, God’s Saturday Night Fireworks. A strong thunderstorm cell came in from the east and for over five hours, From about 9:00 pm until just after 2:00 am, we saw a lighting display like I have not seen in years. The lighting was literally nonstop, flashes upon flashes, sheet and streak lighting jumping from one cloud to another with all different colors, whites, blues and golds. We watched the lighting in the distance, tracking the storm on the laptop, for about an hour before we saw the first drops of rain. Braiden and I went out caught a little of on video. This will give you some idea what it was like, but it does not do it justice.

I love watching the weather. If I was not a pastor I think my dream job would be to be a storm chaser. No, actually it would be to take over Jim Cantore's job at The Weather Channel. One huricane season I was watching Jim onThe Weather Channel so much Mollie thought I was on the verge of become a stalker. (You are not offically a stalker until you have a website or blog devoted to that person...this is only one post and does not count). Jim has a great job, one day covering a blizzard in Montana, the next day a hurricane on the gulf coast.

I have a dream, it is a crazy dream, an unrealistic crazy dream, but it is my dream, What is it? My dream is to combine my love of the weather and my love of motorcycle and start the "Storm Riders", a storm chasing motorcycle ride group. We would ride all over Tornado Alley in the Mid-West chasing storm cells and trying to get a personal up close look at a twister. It would be just like the movie “Twister” just on Motorcycles and probably look something like this.

Well, maybe some dreams are better left unrealized.

The storm was just another reminder of how powerless we really are in this life and how powerful God really is. To think we can control the weather or have some major global influence over something like this is having a way too high opinion of ourselves.