Seeking safety under a threatening sky

Connecting
London, ON
August 2020
This photo originally shared on Instagram

As the skies grew angry yesterday afternoon, I stepped outside to secure the deck amid the strengthening winds.

I quickly finished up and pointed my camera skyward, only to scramble back inside at the sound of an enormous crack.

After the storm, we learned a tree across the street had half its canopy stripped away, but thankfully no one was injured, and it somehow managed to miss nearby homes and cars.

But I was struck by this hastily captured shot, where the threatening sky almost seems to reach down to the earth, while the tree seems to reach up to it, almost oblivious to the danger. Danger or not, trees need light and water. And when the sky turns from azure blue to threatening grey, they have little choice but to stand their ground and do what they can to survive.

In many respects, we’re much more like trees than we might have thought. We, too, have little choice beyond looking to the sky and hunkering down when things get rough.

We, too, hope to hold onto what we have and who we are, so we can emerge unscathed and thankful once the storm has passed.

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