No Thunder Clap

It was midnight- and the fire was crackling in the fireplace. I suddenly felt the need to take a shower, and when I emerged from the bathroom warm and dripping I put on every piece of warm clothing I could find. I took my flashlight and walked down to the lake.

It had been a new day for thirty minutes, and I sat on a picnic table in the dark looking over the dark expanse that was the lake. Black water under blackblue sky- and on the far shore behind the mountains there was a thunderstorm. It wasn't raining where I sat, nor did it seem to be raining over the lake, but above the mountains on the far side lightning cracked the sky... and each time I waited, but there was no thunder clap.

I had gone to the water to listen. Something was happening... in the universe, in me...I didn't know really. And whenever I tried to figure it out my mind would spin around and I couldn't concentrate. So I came to the water, clean and warm in the middle of the night-- to listen.

And what I heard was this: Change is coming. And it will come as a lightning storm- but there will be no thunder clap.

To be honest, this terrified me. However, as I watched the storm on the far shore in the middle of the night I was so deeply touched by how beautiful it was that I realized, even if I didn't understand....



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