Thunder storms were common in South Carolina. Thunder didn’t just roll. It shook the whole house. The lightening would light up all the houses all the way down the street. Frequently the electricity “went out.”
Everything would stop and in-between lightening, all would be dark. I never liked the dark. Those same monsters threatened to show up in the dark. But my mother would get out the kerosene lanterns and light them. We would cluster together near the lights. I’d get in her lap and she would rock and sing. She sang various soothing songs, but my favorite was “God Will Take Care of You.”
She insisted I sing. And then she would change the words to “God will take care of me.” Then she would say, “God will always take care of you, Carolyn. Don’t ever forget that. There will always be storms, but He will take care of you.”
I had many storms in my life after those South Carolina ones. Frequently I would find myself singing, “God will take care of me …” And He did.
The next time you have a storm in your life, try it.
Be not dismayed whate’er betide,
God will take care of you;
Beneath His wings of love abide,
God will take care of you.
- Refrain:
God will take care of you,
Through every day, o’er all the way;
He will take care of you,
God will take care of you.
God will take care of me. Through every day, o’er all the way;
He will take care of me. He will take care of me!
He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. Matthew 8:26
