This painting has for over a century evoked the balancing act between despair and faith that people must walk through after a traumatic or painful life event. Events Painful and traumatic life events can be compared to a fierce electrical storm with lots of lightening and thunder.
Storms are universal, and can be very destructive.
They are strong forces of nature. Out of our control. Not our fault. Lightning, tornados, hurricanes do real damage to people s lives. And they do not occur for any reason related to people.