"Can You Hear Me NOW?"...

God knows I love a really good storm! Really... He does! I have told him so! We have been having some really (ominous to some... awesome to me) weather the past few days. I was napping yesterday... and I woke to the dog barking at "something". We have two fans that run on high in our bedroom constantly when we are in there... basically blocking out all other noise and is kind of like a "sedative" sound. We turned the fans off and heard torrential downpours of all of my favorite little droplets from heaven! It was POURING! You have never seen a fat lady get dressed as fast as I did... just so I could get out in it! It was amazing! Pelts of huge wet heavenly treasures plopping EVERYWHERE! Grey skies opened up like heavens floodgates making everything it touched WET.... JUST PLAIN OLD... WET! I LOVED IT! (I am in the habit of praying for rain at times... but this... this was totally a surprise gift for me!) We drove into town... right through the loudest cloud in the sky. We kind of stayed a step ahead of it... so when we got to town... it caught up with us... and I was able to enjoy it all over again! As we were leaving town... I decided to go "the long way home" along the highway instead of going the backroads... ((Only because the clouds had moved in that direction... and I wanted MORE!!!!)) Let me tell you something... a girl's just not right when the lightning strikes and the rain pelts and she hollers to God... "BRING IT ON!!!! I LOVE IT!!" And that... he did. He brought it alright. As we traveled closer to the turn off to our home... we heard a loud clap of thunder shortly after we had seen a bright flash. I recall saying..."Wow! That was a good one! Bring it on!" Then...... it happened. My right turn signal was on to turn off the highway... and there was this HUMUNGUSOID FLASH OF LIGHT AND A THUNDEROUS CLAP OF GOD'S HANDS AT THE EXACT SAME TIME THAT FELT LIKE IT WAS RIGHT IN.....IN..... IN.... OUR CAR!!! I jumped like you would not believe!~~I was driving~~I turned to Rich and his eyes were bigger than the wheels of our car! I asked him if he felt that... YES I said FELT! He kind of mumbled a few things then he said... "Can we go home now? Is this enough storm for ya?" I again asked him... "Did you FEEL that? I mean feel it??? My face was instantly HOT! HOT!" He replied... "No.. my face wasn't hot... but I might have peed my pants!" :) Well... we turned to go home... and the railroad signal across the road was flashing and the arms were down... but there was NO train.... ANYWHERE! We thought that was pretty cool... in a scary kinda way. We got home... and waited until we had to go back into town to pick Hannah up from her babysitting job. When we got into town... we turned our right turn signal on.... to make a turn.... and it was flashing like someone had given it a quad shot espresso with a cup of sugar in it! The left signal blinked normal... but that right one was dangerously on the verge of having a heart attack! Rich and I decided to check out the top of our car to see if we had burn marks in it anywhere. We did not see anything when we got out to look... but my face was still really warm. I felt as though the finger of God had reached down from heaven and he was trying to tell me something. ((My cheeks are still warm today as a matter of fact... when I went to the restroom at work this afternoon... and my cheeks were red.)) Kinda strange. ((God did actually speak to my heart later that last night... but I'm not quite ready to talk about that yet. I'm still trying to figure it all out)) *Hey Thelma... Yes... I need to talk sometime!*