My wife and I once stayed in a lovely old seaside hotel with large sash windows and thick stone walls One afternoon a storm ripped through the region churning up the sea and pounding our windows like angry fists on a door Yet we were at peace Those walls were so strong and the hotel rsquo s foundations so solid While storms raged outside our room was a refuge Refuge is an important theme in Scripture starting with God Himself ldquo You have been a refuge for the poor rdquo Isaiah says of God ldquo a refuge for the needy [... more]