Blog 3154 – 06.19.2024

Showers of Blessings

I just got back from a later than usual walk with my loving a lovely wife in a light rain. We have been rising earlier to walk before daybreak to avoid the excessive heat of Houston. Hearing the pitter patter on the roof I did not wake her, but let her enjoy an extra hour of sleep. I did as well.

Since it was misting rain and the forecasters are predicting rain all day and a better than eighty percent chance of “heavy rain,” I took an umbrella. I never put it up.

I am reminded of a song that I heard often in the Nazarene church that I attended during my last tour of duty in the Army at Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg, in North Carolina.

The line from the song that came to me is, “Mercy drops round us are falling, but for the showers we plead.”

As long as I can remember I have been a fan of any precipitation that falls from the sky, snow in particular, but lacking that rain and especially a lot of it. I have never quite understood why both seem to get a lot of bad talk as if sunshine were the only blessing that comes to us from above. Eddie Rabbitt’s song, I Love the Rainy Night, and Neal Sedaka’s, Walking In the Rain With the One I Love, are two of my favorites.

In conclusion when snow flakes or rain drops fall we should see them for what they truly are – love from above in frozen or liquid form, life giving and so refreshing.

Your friend, fellow traveler, and fan of rain,

David White