No Rain?

Last week the report came in that we were going to have 3 straight days of rain... 3 days have passed and NO rain. I am greatly disappointed. I mean, how does that happen? How do you miss the prediction that bad? I LOVE rainy days. Obviously not every day... but especially those days when you can sit at home, read, drink coffee and watch it rain outside the big windows! I LOVE it.

Have you ever thought about rain? The word rain actually means blessings from above. Isn't it true? Maybe you don't think of it that way... but i lived in West Africa for a while where there was NO rain for the almost 6 months i lived there! Let me tell you... when rain did come... those people went nuts! they truly thought "blessing from above"... they didn't hide from it... try to not get wet... they danced in their muddy yards... they opened their mouths wide...they LOVED it!

Sadly, many of us don't open wide for the blessings God gives us... we run and hide from the rain he sends on our lives. The things that help us grow, live, breath, mature... why do we not embrace them rather than hide from them?