Blog: Heavy Rain - a podcast by Christopher Stephens

It's dark, your vision is impaired, stability is in question, and you're
unsure of when it will end.  Many of us have experience driving in heavy
rain on the highway.  I travel back and forth to school from Temple to 
A.G.S.T and a couple of months back I was truly terrified!  On my way back
one evening I drove into a thunderstorm.  Everything became black as night
and the roads began to change as if I were driving on top of a body of
water.  The car was moving side to side because of the wind and no matter
how high the windshield wipers were turned up my vision was impaired.  The
only thing that I could make out were the hazard lights of those in front
of me and the strips on the road.  Those strips illuminated the path that I
had to stay on.  I prayed and I asked God to bless me to make it through.
 Now that I had prayed it was time for me to do my part.  I slowed down so
that I could maneuver the car in case I lost track to regain it, I turned
on my high beams in order to see the strips on the road so that I could
stay in my lane, and I slowly proceeded with caution.  Usually on a clear
day I would zip back to Temple now that the speed limit is 75 but today I
had to be content that I was safe and take my time going through the storm
until I made it through.  Well guess what?!!  I made it through!  And what
seemed like an hour was only about 15 minutes! I learned something that day
when I faced the toughest storm I had ever driven through.  I couldn't
simply speed through the storm because I could kill myself.  I couldn't
pray the storm away either.  I had to endure through the storm.  I had to
adapt to the storm.  I had to learn to drive and progress, no matter how
slowly, through it.  I learned to be patient through the storm because it
would eventually be over.  

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