Breaking Through the Eyewall

“In the eye of the storm, you remain in control…In the middle of the war, you guard my soul. You alone are the anchor, when my sails are torn. Your love surrounds me, in the eye of the storm.” Eye of the Storm, Ryan Stevenson

Over the course of almost 8 years at Folly we have been on hurricane watch a few times a year. We even were given a Hurricane Card as residents to present to re-enter the island after a strong hurricane. I am always amazed at how the calm eye is surrounded by devastating winds and epic amounts of water, some out of the atmosphere and vast amount from the ocean. I looked up the explanation of the surrounding areas of the eye. It states, ‘The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of strong tropical cyclones. It is surrounded by the eyewall, a ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather and highest winds occur’ Wikipedia.

I began considering my friends who seem to be experiencing their own eyewall during this season of their lives, surrounded by a ring of towering and severe circumstances. The details must seem chaotic to them with little control in their hands. Their visibility I’m sure is very limited and their faces are probably chapped from the tears. The rain keeps coming and the water level keeps rising. But with every hurricane there is an eye where God resides doing His best work. It is where calm and peace exist because it is connecting to the One who holds back the eyewall from collapsing on us.

If you are experiencing that ring of severity, don’t despair because on the other side of the eyewall is God Almighty who controls all the storms. The eyewall is nearest to the proximity and presence of God. Push through the most severe part of your hurricane and reach out to grab the hand of Christ. He will pull you in and surround you with His calm enduring love. Only He controls the length of time and the severity of the storm as it swirls around you. But He gives us a place of refuge…a covering for our pain…a place of rest for our soul no matter what is in the eyewall.

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” Psalm 32:8