STORMY WEATHER

4/26/11

Back in the 60s when 45s were played on record players, “Stormy Weather”, a garage band style version by Tommy Burk and the Counts, was a “biggie” in Memphis. Not a life-long Memphian, I don’t remember much about the ”Counts”. I just know they hung out at the Pike house at Memphis State and both Wayne Thompson and Thomas Boggs were a part of the group. I also remember dancing at the King Cotton and humming along with the lyrics as the band played. Some of the lines were descriptive of our weather lately. There was no “sun up in the sky” & “It's raining all the time, all the time.”

Yesterday hubby and I were on I-40 when such a storm hit. No sun visible. It rained as if it would never stop. Big trucks on both sides sprayed us. Visibility was nil. The storm caught us by surprise and it was scary. I prayed.

Life is often a lot like that---a sudden unplanned “storm-like event” rising up out of nowhere. Unexpected. Causing us to re-chart our course, sometimes 180º.

As we inched along our way, I was grateful that I knew the One who can calm life’s storms.

· One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger.

The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!”

He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples.

In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”(Luke 8:22-25)