Not the Why but the Who

The first word of the article's title caught my eye. "Saviors." Not a word I see often in the news...or at least not outside the Religion section.

I'm used to that term being a proper noun with one specific definition. Confused, I had to read the full title several times before I realized Jesus had nothing to do with the story.

"Saviors as tornado hit: A table, a wall, a freezer."

I grumbled aloud at this usage of the word, as if the author would somehow hear (or care) what I thought about the title.

Then, I read about this weekend's nasty line of thunderstorms that pushed across the South, spinning several tornadoes through the skies of Louisiana and weaving one particularly destructive tornado across Mississippi.

As the story related, when the tornado hit, one man survived under a table in a church. Another survived when the wind picked him up and slammed him against a cinderblock wall, which crumbled only after stopping his body from being swirled upwards into the tornado. And a third, the wife, survived behind a freezer.

According to the news, these three inanimate objects were "saviors."

But who kept the table in place? Who made the cinder block wall hold together just long enough? Who held down the freezer with His hand?

No recognition of the Who in the article.

But in the debris of what used to be a church, a member "found a hymnal opened to the song, 'Till the Storm Passes By.'"

Yes, that's the Who.

Till the storm passes over,
till the thunder sounds no more,
Till the clouds roll forever from the sky:
Hold me fast, let me stand in the hollow of Thy hand,
Keep me safe till the storm passes by.