Clouds and torrential rains swirl around me, blinding the way the road turns ahead of me.
An unfamiliar place, no place to run to safety, just forced to wait out the storm.
As the clouds move east the rains ease up I begin my journey again, the twists and turns of a country road laid out before me.
And then, to the west, a slice of light so powerful begins to dawn in the break of the clouds.
Its beauty and meaning strikes my soul so deep that it is all I can do to find a place to stop and just simply watch.
I lean against my car, watching the intensity of this dawning till I am nearly blinded and have to look away.
And there, on a deserted Lauderdale County Road - the Mississippi River just beyond the tree line - I realize that my soul has just been allowed a rare gift by God.
Like Simeon and Anna beholding the Christ Child as promised I know I have beheld the infancy of the power that shall one day shame the sun and drive us all to our knees.
©Kristen Garcia 1-2011
2 comments:
Very sweet.
I've been waiting a number of years to finally get that event down in some kind of piece.
Nothing like Jua doing some throwback Healing Song music during service to kick that into being :)
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