Even the wind and waves obey him
Click here to listen to audio. Welcome to Thought for the Day. For you listeners, today is Friday 31 st Jan, but if you can think back exactly a week to last Friday, that’s now for me. I’m recording this little thought for the day as right now Storm Eowyn batters the British Isles on Friday morning 24 th January. And as I look out of the window, it’s blowing a hooley. I had to ring my neighbour to tell him his garden furniture was ripped, and the headlines on the BBC read “Danger to life warnings as ‘once in a generation’ Storm Eowyn batters UK and Ireland”, and a gust of 114mph has just been recorded in Ireland. Nobody can stop the wind. Railways have been closed, planes have been rerouted, solid walls have been blown down, less solid structures and some roof tiles don’t have a chance. We’re so used to thinking that we can control events, our weekend plans, our TV choices, our home décor, but the wind reminds us how limited we are, and how sometimes we need to hunker...