278God is in the Rain

posted by Jeffrey on February 24th, 2007

Powerful storms are on the horizon of Nashville this evening, and I am quite glad. I have always loved the rain, but I have loved thunderstorms even more. Personally, I’ve always been most aware of God through nature, yet do not know why. It is not that I see “evidence” of God in nature, but that something in or about it stirs the spirit/life/essence of God, that is Love, within me.

When I was in college at MTSU (but one of my many universities…whilst never actually earning a degree) I had an experience that brought this love of storms to my conscious awareness. I was cramming for finals late one spring night when the campus was rocked by the worst storm I can recall. At that point in my life I primarily connected with God vicariously through the stories in the Bible, and found myself relating to a similar experience Moses is told to have had.

I sat on my bed, looking out my window and saying something like this to God [parallel it to Moses on Mt. Sinai before receiving the ten commandments]: “God cover my window as if it were the cleft in a rock on Mt. Sinai and pass by, removing your hand that I may catch but a glimpse of your glory…for I know I cannot see your face and live.” At that moment, lighting struck a transformer across campus and lit up the sky. I took that as “an answer to my prayer” and realized my increased awareness of God through nature, specifically in thunderstorms.

I know now that though my ideologies and concepts of God were skewed and off course in those days (as they are in many ways still), but as I think God often does, he saw that my heart was in the right place…and related to me there.

In what ways do you connect with God or find the deep parts of your soul stirred to their very depths?

(Post title is a quote from the movie, V for Vendetta)

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