Pondering The Word

As a little girl, I remember so vividly how thunderstorms struck chords of fear and anxiety within me. Growing up in West Texas, it was not uncommon to be awakened in the middle of a warm summer night by the sounds of “ear-piercing” thunder that caused the earth to rumble, and lightening that streaked the expanse of the midnight sky. Almost every night, as I said my bedtime prayers, I would ask The Lord to “please let us not have...