Few of us will ever have the experience that John Neidigh of Jackson, Mississippi, had many years ago. John became trapped in the eye of a tornado. Even more amazing was the fact that he lived to tell about it. By the time John learned of the tornado's presence, it was too close for him to escape. His mobile home began moving up and down, as if it were a surfboard on a killer wave. Trees and debris flew by. The wind peeled off his roof. The sound was like the howl of a freight train. Suddenly, Neidigh's home was lifted up in the air and wedged in a tree. The tornado passed, leaving Neidigh alive, but with multiple injuries that took months to heal. (1)

I thought of John as I read the first few verses of today's lesson:

"When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.…