sans top...

i happened to take a quick road trip the big town of amarillo yesterday...just to see some family and enjoy a drive in the jeep- 103 degrees, hot and very, very windy...

so on my return tonight, i saw the thunder clouds building in the east...i haven't seen a drop of rain in months...so- i decided to stay sans top, and head on to fallstown...

i must say, most drivers probably tallied me in the idiot catagory, because the lightening was fierce...but, i drove on, knowing it would be a good experience...and it was...i had a minor epiphany about what it must feel like to know there is a threat and wonder if the threat might actually hit you...i tried to imagine all the war torn peoples who live in extreme difficulties minute by minute...i am tired of hearing of nothing but war...i want it to stop...right now...and i prayed that if there was anyone who was feeling what i was feeling, but at a much more intense level, they might be delivered tonight and see the stars again with no looming danger...

i know that bombs and whatnot are not encroaching on every person tonight...the danger lies in different areas...divorce, disease, depression, poverty, domination...it's truly overwhelming...God let the stars shine as well for them...from a little simpleton in fallstown usa...