Have you ever been so touched by something or someone in your life that you felt like you had to tell everyone about it?  About 22 years ago I was in a place in my life that peace had lost all meaning to me.  I smoked, drank and cursed with the best of the sailors.  I had lost something in my life and wanted so desperately to find it again.  One night, a friend took me to the beach and told me to just let it all out.  To pray and ask God to help me find that peace I had lost.  I barely got the words out of my mouth when the strangest thing happened.

It was dark...the sea was roaring like it always does...and suddenly...these clouds started rolling towards us in the most magnificant colors of orange and white.  They rolled toward us so fast that we were afraid and ran to the car.  Something made me stop and look back at these raging clouds.  As I stood there in awe and fear as quickly as they rolled toward us they stopped.  I was afraid and that fear kept me glued to the spot next to the car door staring at this strange sight.  Suddenly, the clouds parted and formed a balcony.  What appeard to be a person, most likely a man, clothed in white and a bright white light walked out onto the balcony of clouds and stood there looking at me and my friend.  He stretched out his hand and the most wonderful peace I had ever known came over me and I began to cry.  He turned went back into the clouds and as quickly as the clouds came and parted, they rolled back together and rolled away and it started to rain.

I got in the car awestruck and tears rolling down my face with the knowledge that God had answered my prayer that night.  He reached out to me...took away all the turmoil in my life and restored a peace in my heart that I had longed for.  It is something I never forgot...and always looked back on in my life when I felt like I had lost that peace again.  Just thinking of that night restores that knowledge and peace in my heart as much now as it did then.

He is awesome.  He hears our prayers.  And He always gently reminds us He is there ready to touch us...even in the midst of the storms in our lives.  Trust Him.  He will restore that peace in your life today, just as He did mine...all those years ago.