Today Is A Rainy Day

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Today is a rainy day and,
I believe that calls for celebration as,
a) it hasn't rained in a good while
b) I love rainy days
c) I need something to celebrate
d) school work is not as exciting as rain
and there's too much schoolwork around here.
^_^

Join me, won't you?
We'll make up a poem:

pitter patter rain
running down my face
washing away my woes
carpeting the hills in glisten
pitter patter rain

And we'll....
look and see if there aren't any Scriptures on rain:

Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
As the droplets on the fresh grass
And as the showers on the herb.
(Deuteronomy 32.2)

Who does great and unsearchable things,
Wonders without number.
He gives rain on the earth
And sends water on the fields,
So that He sets on high those who are lowly,
And those who mourn are lifted to safety.

After my words they did not speak again,
And my speech dropped on them.
They waited for me as for the rain,
And opened their mouth as for the spring rain.
I smiled on them when they did not believe,
And the light of my face they did not cast down.

Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him;
The number of His years is unsearchable.
For He draws up the drops of water,
They distill rain from the mist,
Which the clouds pour down,
They drip upon man abundantly.
(from the book of Job)

As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day,
so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance
Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD
And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking...
(Ezekiel 1.28)

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What beautiful passages. God, beautiful, strong and life-giving, like rain.
Waiting for Him like for him to come down
like it is waiting for a rain after years of drought...

When I first heard Selena Gomez's new song A Year Without Rain,
I kept thinking about Jesus as who she was talking about (rather than a human):
"A day without you is like a year without rain..."

Is one day without Jesus in my life like a year without rain?

"But do not let this one fact escape your notice,
beloved, that with the Lord
one day is like a thousand years,
and a thousand years like one day."
(2 Peter 3.8)