A Practical Walk

After the Hail Comes…

Remember how worried I was about my plants, then we had a hail storm?

Remember how the one thing I wasn’t really worried about was a freeze?

Well guess what? Right after that, I was told they were calling for possible freezes! The lady who told me said she’d be putting buckets over her tomato plants, so I followed suit!

One cucumber plant is dead, but I think the others are okay.

Isn’t that like life sometimes? First you get the hail, and then right on it’s tail comes the cold! There’s been a couple of times in my own like that if felt like this.

Several years ago our son fell sick, my husband took him to the ER where he had a seizure. When I got to the hospital the doctor didn’t know if our son would make it. Long story short, he did make it through that, but not without multiple scary incidents first. It took a long time for him to fully recovery. Just a couple months after our whole world had been rocked by almost loosing our son, we got word that a family member had a tumor, probably cancerous. Then another family member had some heart problems. These stories have happy endings of healing, but during the midst of it, it just felt like a cold snap after a hail storm.

Not all life storms are with physical health though. The last couple of years we felt like we kept getting hit with challenges in a multitude of areas of our lives. When this starts happening, I get to wondering when the next thing’s gonna hit. Praise God, He’s a Master Gardener and is well aware of all the storms we’ve gone through, are going through, and will go through!

A rainbow is a welcome sight after a storm.

2 responses to “After the Hail Comes…”

  1. Elisabeth Avatar
    Elisabeth

    For three years I felt like I was walking in a valley with no exit – no relief, no guide. In that time of loneliness and despair, I felt alone.

    There was an unexpected rainbow after, very literally, a change in my life brought about by a flood. And two passages from Isaiah were Heaven-sent.

    From Isaiah 30 – after years of asking God to provide a sense of direction – in an instant He did and that same day I read the following verses:

    20 Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

    It was one of the most spiritually profound experiences of my life.

    And the second from Isaiah 43:

    “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
        I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
    2 When you pass through the waters,
        I will be with you;
    and when you pass through the rivers,
        they will not sweep over you.
    When you walk through the fire,
        you will not be burned;
        the flames will not set you ablaze.
    3 For I am the Lord your God,
        the Holy One of Israel, your Savior…
    4 Since you are precious and honored in my sight,
        and because I love you,
    I will give people in exchange for you,

    There are valleys and storms and through it all, he is there. What a delight and unique privilege for His children to be able to hear His voice break through and tell us what way to walk. And to know that we are never alone, and He has redeemed us.

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    1. katyjpryor Avatar
      katyjpryor

      Thank you so much for sharing Elisabeth. Those are beautiful passages from Isaiah!

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