A Storm Through A Child's Heart

I looked out the window and noticed the sky in the distance was becoming gray, almost too dark for a simple shower. This storm was coming hard. I prepared by taking out the candles and flashlights just in case the power went out. I gathered my family and we watched weather warnings on television of a possible tornado in the area. The thunder outside was a distant rumbling. But it was getting closer. This was going to be bad.

I gathered my two little ones, the oldest being only five years old. Just then the power went out in our home as well as throughout the neighborhood. The rain was coming down hard. The thunder was now roaring and accompanied by hard lightening that cracked like a whip. So hard was the thunder that the windows would shake.

My five year old began to whimper and cry. I wanted to comfort him and needed to think fast of what I could say to calm his little nerves. I began to tell him a story about heaven. "Don't be scared" I began in a soft voice. "There is a lot going on in heaven right now. All the noice you're hearing from the sky is because all the
Angels are busy."

"What are they doing Mommy?"

"Well, they've been cleaning house today and they decided they needed to rearrange some things in their big house." I'm thinking at this time where am I going with this story?

"But why is it so noisey Mommy?"

"Well, Sweetie, the reason you're hearing all the noice is because all the Angels are moving their furniture in heaven."

At that very moment a thunderous roar with lightening struck near by. With his little hands clasped together and his sweet face looking upwards he exclaimed, "Was that the sofa!?"

Never in a million years would I have expected that response. I learned a lesson at that very moment that a child's heart is very visual in what we tell them. They take everything to heart!