Healing Rain

Yep. It's that time again. Time to blog about rain. :)

It's raining. It's been raining for the last couple of days. Everything looks different in the rain. It looks dark and gray. It looks gloomy. Everytime i hear people grumbling about the weather they say "i know we need the rain, but..." And i get that. We need it. But oh God, we need more than that. We are in desperate need of the healing kind of rain....rain for our souls. Healing rain for our hearts.


I find myself in a stage of life that is difficult. I'm waiting for the next stage of my life to begin. And i want to wish this stage of my life away. I'm certainly guilty of wishing my life away. When i was a young child, i couldn't wait to be older. I wasn't the happiest kid on the block, to be honest, and i always thought if i was a little older, i'd be happier. (Don't know where that kind of logic comes from.) And here i am. A 27 year old woman and i'm still doing it--still wishing i was in a different stage of life. "Don't wish your life away," i can hear my mom say. "Your time will come," my sweet coworker tells me. But here's the good part. I'm finally getting to a place where i want to listen to this piece of advice. I want to embrace the season in which i find myself. Right now. In this moment. I'm tired of the past hurts dragging me down into the mud and mire. I'm tired of the fears holding me back. I'm tired of being stuck.


"See, i am doing a new thing! Now it springs up! Do you not perceive it?" Isaiah 43:19


Yes. I see it now. He is doing a new work. He's creating me into the person He wants me to be. THAT is exactly who i long to be. He's refining me like silver. He's getting the scratches out (do not think he is making me perfect). He's sending His rain down onto my life and filling me up to overflowing--whether i am mindful of this or not--it's what He's doing. He's healing. You see, He's moving. He's prepared a way for me to begin a Bible study in my home for women on similar paths. He's allowed many temptations--many stumbling blocks-- to fall to the way side. He's building my strength. I'm getting better at being mindful and living in the moment. Not missing this life. I don't want to miss any of it--the good or the bad (well, maybe a little of the bad :))--it's all working together for my good. To create me into the woman He's designed me to be.

So...it's raining. Spritually. It's not dark or gloomy or scary. It's healing. He's doing a new thing. And it's beautiful.