What the hail?

This is my backyard. I live in North Carolina for Pete’s sake! Along with thunder that rattled the windows and lightening to rival anything the paparazzi could offer, we experienced some pea size hail. The rain and hail were coming so hard that our yard was swamped. I could barely make out the hail stones as they were coming down. When they hit the lawn, they bounced up and the scene resembled pop corn being cooked on our grass.

It turns out that our little black mystery dog is not fond of thunder. She became my Siamese twin for about an hour. Awww. My grand Dame, our white dog, could not have cared any less about all the noise and excitement. She is cool as a cucumber. Or, it could be that she is just too darn old to be excited by much.

Well, at least I was pretty impressed.

Singing again

My lovely co-workers allowed me to leave early on Friday so I could get to the conference on time. You see, several weeks ago, I was asked to sing one song at each of the 3 sessions. I was delighted. I asked God what He would have me sing and I was quite sure that He did not want me to fall back on any of the songs I already knew. I went shopping for new songs and found 3 that spoke to my heart. I learned them in time to make them my own.

All the ministry participants were asked to be at the church by 5:45 PM for sound checks.

I had some work to do in the trailer with the make up department head and the head of my department before I left. They asked me to sing a little of the song that I would be doing that night. I got to sing about half of Heal the Wound  for them. My dept. head started to cry.

It is random happenings like that which confirm for me that I am in the right place for such a time as this. I do not have to know all the whys and wherefores. God touched some one right before my eyes. And He uses ordinary people who are simply willing to show up.