God and Nature Spring 2020
Sanctuary from the Storm |
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By Roger Edwards
In troubled times, we seek sanctuary from the storms of life. Many of us choose to do so in the God who inspired this church. Completed in 1897 with stone taken from the flanks of the High Plains mesa on which it stands, the St. Johns Methodist Episcopal Church stands today as a well-maintained legacy of worship, reverentially restored several times, while enduring countless hundreds of similar and stronger storms rolling from the nearby Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
In troubled times, we seek sanctuary from the storms of life. Many of us choose to do so in the God who inspired this church. Completed in 1897 with stone taken from the flanks of the High Plains mesa on which it stands, the St. Johns Methodist Episcopal Church stands today as a well-maintained legacy of worship, reverentially restored several times, while enduring countless hundreds of similar and stronger storms rolling from the nearby Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Roger Edwards is a severe-storms scientist and full-time national tornado forecaster in Norman, OK, and has published in the scientific storm literature. He sees storms as manifestations of the Lord's beauty and power, while fully acknowledging the fear, damage and misery they can cause.