I’m on my final flight home. I am by myself for the first time in nine months and am on emotion overload right now. I have been traveling for over 24 hrs and all I want to do right now is pass out cuddled up with my dog…
I was attempting to take a small nap in my window seat (yes this is relevant to the story) when the couple next to me woke me up. I looked at them confused and the women pointed out the window.
We were flying NEXT to a lightning storm. And it freaked me out. I don’t like lightning. We were driving home on a trip during a storm a couple years ago and I saw lightning strike in the field we were passing by. That was the closest I had ever been to lightning before now.
As I mentioned before I am scared of lightning. As we were flying by this storm I started having a slight panic attack. Nobody wants to be flying in a metal tin can while God is putting a full on light show that can put any house at Christmas time to shame. So in typical true Emry fashion I started asking God why I was scared of lightning and if he could take it away.
This was my answer.
Enjoy this show of my beauty and power. You often view me as a soft person who can’t/won’t do the hard things. That’s a lie. I have the ability to strive the ground with bolts of electricity but nothing ever happens to you in these times because I am protecting you.
I read the Shack in my last month in Ethiopia and it wrecked me in so many good ways. And it really altered the view of the Holy Spirit for me. I always imagined what it says in the Bible about the spirit a wind or dove. After the book I adopted the description of a noon solid human form ( like a must of sorts) made up of every color of the rainbow and more.
But after this flight next to the storm, my view of the Holy Spirit has once again changed. It’s a powerful force that can and will go everywhere in the world and beyond. It can be huge or tiny. It isn’t always the most noticeable thing. Sometimes you can find it in the thunder, and lightning, sometimes you can find it in the rain other times you have to look harder for the rainbow. It doesn’t always come in bad weather. Like the Bible says the Holy Spirit is often around as a wind.
I like viewing the Holy Spirit as that lightning storm cause I know it can’t do anything to me. It loves me to much.
This is officially my last blog. I am now officially World Race Alumni and as I finish this blog I am landing in San Antonio! Hello Texas it’s been a while!
World Race Alumni
Emry Brandenburger
