Real Life Reflections

The night was clear and cool. A welcome relief from the heat of the day. Stars sprinkled the sky like salt, and we could see for miles from our post on the hills outside the city. "Did I tell you about my little Hezekiah?” I asked. “What could there possibly be that you haven’t told us about your ‘little Hezekiah’? You talk about him every night. Even the sheep are tired of hearing about that boy.” My friend answered. “If you had a boy like my Hezekiah, you’d talk about him every night too. You’re jealous of me because I have a son, and all you’ve produced are girls. Who will take care of your flock when you grow too old, eh, Daniel? Who?” “My girls are fine and strong. They will make excellent shepherdesses. Even so, I’m still young and viral. Miriam is with child again and the Lord may see fit to give me a son this time. Then you will be the jealous one!” “Why would I be jealous of your son? I have a boy of my own who can do anything he puts his mind to.” Daniel and I bantered l...

You may have heard someone say, “It’s raining cats and dogs,” but has anyone ever told you that it’s raining fish or maybe frogs, clams, or jellyfish? It sounds crazy, but people all over the world confirm these reports. In 1873, the citizens of Kansas City, MO looked up and saw fish and frogs raining down on them. The year before that in Bucharest, Romania, it rained little black worms, and many years later, on July 4, 1995, the residents of Keokuk, IA watched as full cans of soda fell from the sky. Impossible? Not if a tornado has anything to do with it. A tornado is a powerful, rotating column of air that can act like your vacuum cleaner - it sucks things up. Your vacuum has a container that it uses to store the things that it draws into it, but tornadoes don’t have that so they have to drop whatever they’ve taken. Some times they drop those things right away. Other times, the tornadoes suck things all the way up into the storm cloud that created them. The storm cloud might then ca...