I wouldn't listen to country music if my life depended on it. Until it did.

I never thought I could be so happy to see a Walmart! 

March 2, 2012. Marysville, Tennessee. I drove through 3 tornadoes- taking shelter at a mall, a chapel on a hill, a Sonic drive in, and a Walmart- eventually reaching my destination of Nashville at 2 A.M.- 3 hours before my plane left. A grey-bearded cowboy prophet at an abandoned gas station told me to go forward- don't slow down or stop for anything- and I could outrun the storm. He also told me to tune into the storm watch: on the local country radio station.



In one bizarre day, my God led me through three crazy storms, and a few times I was pretty sure I might die. "You drove over THAT bridge darlin'?" In my rental car, the only car on the unlit road, just me, Jesus, and Kip Moore, singing me all the way to Nashville-interrupted by the constant beeps of the Emergency Broadcasting Network- straight through the storms. Going forward.

I kind of love him now.

No, really. Yeah he's a cocky cowboy singing about girls and whisky- but that's not it- this song repeated over and over and over on that drive- hammering into me my need for my God, my desperate dependence on his love- and He met me there, and He loves me- drowned in that, I'm unafraid.


  "The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
    the floods have lifted up their voice;
    the floods lift up their roaring.
  Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
    mightier than the waves of the sea,
    the Lord on high is mighty!"
-Psalm 93:3-4

"Set me as a seal upon your heart,
    as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
    jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
    the very flame of the Lord.

Many waters cannot quench love,
    neither can floods drown it."

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

I'm loved like that- no room for fear. 

And this, is totally a worship song to my God: