Rain is a funny thing. There it goes dripping down the hem of your skirt, and it gives you a choice. Either you can be upset, and starting hating the way it makes you uncomfortable, or you can just embrace it, let go of the umbrella, and walk.I realized that loving the rain is a lot like loving your enemies. There are so many enemies it seems. They make you feel cold, and you feel a lot like running away and hiding where they can't find you. But if I can love the rain I can love my enemies. I can take down my umbrella and just take whatever they starting pouring all over me. Why? Because in the end there's so much more freedom in letting love win than in being a coward, and running for cover. Did I really just use the word coward? Yes, because so often I found myself afraid to face my enemies, afraid of what they might do to me. I don't want to be a coward, I want to be courageous.
So I will love the rain, no matter how unexpected, or unpredictable, and no matter what it might do to me. Easy? No, but God didn't say to ask for easy, He said to love Him, and love others more than I love myself.
Lord help me to always love the "rain".
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Current music: The Weepies
Current book: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Thanks to my lovely friend for telling me to read them)
Also, I am going to tell the world this...if you don't already know Drew Ryniewicz from Chino Valley made it on to Simon Cowell's X-Factor. So just watch, and be blown away like I am :) Go Drew!
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