Rocky roads don’t even touch the surface of our journey.
A more accurate description would be enormous boulders on a destructive path destined for the next 80 foot cliff. No exagerattion; our marriage has been nothing short of the extreme sport of cliff diving. Fear intensified as each soaring dive lost the volume meant to break our falls, needless to say (but I’m going to anyways) a lot of bumps, bruises, scars, broken lives and shattered hearts were the reminents of a once fairy tale marriage many envied (and still do on occasion). Our most recent dive has been voted among our family to be the true definiton of our family motto: The Storms 7. Yes, pun is intended here.
Although we say it, sing it and…well…eventually live it; We Will Praise You in this Storm! Music is a meeting ground, a truce, a peace offering, if you will, for our dysfunctional family. God has provided the lyrics and song many times over as each of the Storms embrace His refuge in the midst of chaos. Casting Crowns, Acappella, Skillet and the divine memory of Watershed’s seranade of Make Me a Storm are the power tools God has utilized over 18 years of repairing the debris of lightening striking. We, the Storms 7, believe David, a king in the Old Testament days, sang it best in Psalms 46. His praises to God, in desparate times of need, have been the scriptural references for our family’s codependancy[1] of one another and more importantly; our dependancy on God. David’s song goes a little bit like this, “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear… He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear, he burns the shields with fire. "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." My marriage has journeyed the trenches of many battlefields, created the vibration of thundering booms and witnessed the impact of our many storms. Being Still has never been our strong suit.Yes; ALL puns intended!
[1] 1 COR 11:11-12 However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as the woman originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God.
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