Writer's Workshop - Healing From The Storm

This is the usual Thursday writing challenge from Mama's Losing It.  Choose a prompt, post it on your blog, and go over to Mama's Losin It and add your name to the link list.

The Prompts:
1.) Return to work after baby was born or stay home? How did you make your decision?
2.) Write a poem about inspired by the word: Storm
3.) You know the stories that are retold a million times at family gatherings? I call them Life Stories that you just never live down. List your Top 10 Life Stories.
4.) Describe a time you saw someone getting picked on.
5.) Write about one of your childhood heroes.

I chose number two this week and wrote a poem inspired by the word:  Storm

Healing From The Storm

Lightening flashes

Across the blackness

Of the winter sky.

Thunder rumbles

Through the air

In a breathtaking

Display of noise.

The rain comes down

In a curtain

Of icy wetness.

It pounds

In a loud cacophony

Of drumming sound,

And beats upon

The hard ground,

Turning,

All the dusty land

Into thick,

Oozing mud.

The trees lash

In the wind

Back and forth

In a macabre dance,

Sending branches

Crashing dangerously

To the earth.

I watch the storm

Blow through

My mountain home,

In all it’s terror

And it’s glory.

Remembering,

That this too

Shall pass.

That after the storm

The rainbow

Will come,

And there will be

Peace at last.

My life is full

Of storms that come

In the darkness

Of my aching.

The thunder and lightening,

That is the world

Around me,

Rumble in my ears

Deafening

My heart

From feeling the comfort

Of my God.

Trials rain

Upon my soul

And I struggle

In the mud

Of uncertainty

And despair.

The winds

Of life’s heartaches

Lash against my spirit

And I turn away

From His peace.

Finally,

When I can bear no more,

I fall upon my knees

And turn to Him

Now, at last,

Seeking His way

I bow to His will.

He teaches me

That this struggle,

Like any earthy storm,

Shall pass away.

After the tribulation
Comes the blessing,

And the Son,

And His healing,

At last.