This evening I attended a performance of "Joseph and the Amazing Techincolor Dreamcoat" with my daughter at Madison's stunning Overture Center for the Arts. As we exited the center, we felt small drops of rain, but just as we reached the parking garage -- less than one block from the center -- large balls of hail poured from the sky. I have seen a lot of hailstorms, but nothing quite like this. Much of the hail was about the size of golf balls, and the sound was like automatic gunfire, particularly since it was hitting cars parked along the street. People who were driving past the parking garage swerved in as quickly as they could, and the rest of us just stared in wonder.
Having just watched a show about Joseph in Egypt, my mind turned to the scriptures:
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
I realize it's not a perfect fit. God would never target Madison, right?
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1. Posted by Alan Kellogg on April 14, 2006 @ 6:34 | Permalink
Target Madison? Nah, He's not into that sort of thing. But every now and then He does like to remind us.
2. Posted by Christine on April 14, 2006 @ 9:07 | Permalink
The power just went out at my house, so I'll expect the locusts any time now.
3. Posted by Jeff Lipshaw on April 14, 2006 @ 11:37 | Permalink
Hmmm. The last stop of our "spring break of high school junior year ten colleges in ten days" tour of the Northeast last week ended at Swarthmore. It was cold but sunny until we left the hotel, when it began to hail (like driving on golf balls), and continued to do so until the info session was over, my son had made a quick and negative decision on Swarthmore, and we decided to skip the tour and leave. At which point, the hail stopped and sun broke through. We took it as divine opinion on James' match with Swarthmore.
By the way, I am sure that occurrence in Madison was a mistake. In the Big Ten, it is only "Hail to the Victors." (JML, Michigan, A.B. '75.)
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