God fireworks

July 27, 2009 (happy 9th birthday yesterday, Candan! how'd you get to be 9 already?!)


Last weekend in Nanaimo is the huge "Bathtub Racing Festival"... it's a huge deal, people come from all over to go watch racers race their bathtubs around the little islands, and the whole thing culminates with a huge fireworks display at the beach downtown on Saturday night. I didn't feel like fighting crowds and the whole bit, so we'd planned a quiet evening at home, watching an old episode of SuperFriends on the Retro channel. When our living room glowed gold, and knowing that over across the strait in Vancouver there was a lightning warning, we sat up from our chairs, ran for the van, and headed for our beach. God put on the most amazing light show, and we didn't even need to fight for a parking spot! Praise Him! :) We missed it, but apparently, there was a double rainbow in the sky shortly before we got there, too, if you can imagine!

Be patient with my grainy video...the first one I just wanted to show what our view was, the west, the sun setting, and the south, the lightning storm in the distance.... we didn't know which way to look! I hardly got the very best ones on video... but you get the idea. What a God sighting we had!

I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds. Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as our God? You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples. ...17 The clouds poured down water, the skies resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth. Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked. Psalm 77:12-14, 17-18