Since my mother's passing at the end of April, there have been many adjustments and readjustments to make to our lives and we have done a lot of remembering. One of the things that came to mind, just the day before yesterday, was the family picture of Jesus in a tornado.

It had been a few years since I had seen it and I wanted to see it again. The photograph was re-discovered the next day, yesterday, as we were rearranging the living room. I uploaded it unedited, so the nicks and dings are visible, like the light blue spot in the lower left hand corner and a scratch in the middle, but the picture is the same as it was when I first saw it twenty years ago or so. Since then, other images have been discovered in the picture as family and friends have viewed it from alternative perspectives.

The photograph came to my family back in the early 1980's, maybe even the late 1970's. Photographer and location are unknown to me, thus I can not offer authentication. I do know that even my skeptical, depression-era grandparents took the photograph seriously and felt blessed for having seen it and it removed much of the fear I had of storms as a young teenage girl living in tornado alley.

Incredibly, this is not the only photograph where Jesus is seen in a tornado. Among visitors top favorite pages over at Java for Jesus, is a more recent picture of Jesus in a tornado