Crazy Weather

The weather here in Limuru has gone CRAZY the last couple of days!  First there were a few random rain showers, which is unusual because this is usually the driest and hottest time of the year.  Then, yesterday we had an insane hail storm.  Out of nowhere, I started hearing hailstones hitting the roof of our office, and within seconds we could hardly see out the windows.  Marble-sized hail was bouncing around all over the place and producing an almost-deafening noise. 

Later on last night, I woke up to the sound of thunder and pouring rain.  Just seconds later, the room lit up with a lightning flash and the loudest thunder I've ever heard in my life literally shook the house.  You know how you always learn to count the seconds between the thunder and lightning?  Well these were at the EXACT same time.  After a few more gigantic claps of thunder, the storm seemed to start moving away and gradually subsided, not without knocking out our power for the whole morning though!

Storms always serve as reminders to me of how small we are and how powerful God is.  To think of Jesus standing in a boat during a storm like one of these and calming it with his words blows my mind.  How incredible that our God has control over the forces of nature that we can only hope to endure...

Here are a few shots from the storm yesterday: