I am thankful for the deep emotional and sentimental side of you. It makes your blog and photos so meaningful in ways you can not know.

I love your cloud photos that came with this posts’ email. The cloud set on flickr evoked so much emotion in me. I grew up in Kansas City (tornado alley); I loved and feared the storms. I can remember singing “Master the Tempest is Raging” in my mind as I prayed for safety through the storms.

There was one particular incident when I, as a new pilot needing cross country hours for my commercial certificate, had flown two pilots to Chicago to pick up a twin engine airplane. There was something wrong with the plane so the purchase didn’t go through. On the way back to Kansas City, all of a sudden the pilot in the back seat said, “I’ll take it from hear.” He climbed over the seat and told me to squeeze into the passenger’s seat with the other pilot and be prepared to take over. He turned the plane around and headed back east muttering, “Where was that airport, where was that airport?” He spotted a small country airstrip and quickly landed the plane (65 mph.)

No sooner than he touched down both pilots had the doors open and were out the door as soon as they could hold the wings (we were in a Cessna) and run. We got to a tie down and they barely got the wings chained when a storm front hit. There were 13 tornados that night. The clouds in the storm front went all the way to the ground on the horizon. It just looked like a dark cloudy day at dusk with the night coming on. I was too inexperienced to understand what I was seeing and the weather report didn’t warn of the danger. If the twin engine had been good, I would have been flying back solo and my life would have been taken that night.

There have been so many times that God has intervened on my behalf during the storms of weather and the storms of life. The cloud photo set reminded me of God’s love for me. Thanks for sharing!