Rain Rhapsody

 

I was going to mow lawn this afternoon but

it began to rain...h-m-m. What to do?!!

Some rare extra-poem time, maybe?

to celebrate what we have been watching/praying for

in the weather forecast for weeks!!!

Thank-you, gracious Heavenly Father!

This afternoon the rain plays like a piano and violin-serenade

I like the rain

The way the lane

Is dappled with its drops

The way its runnels slip and drip

And run and plip and plop

I like the way it puddles in

The double-chins of earth

And how we sense

In nature’s thirst quencher

Immense rebirth

I like the glimmer on the grass

The shimmer of a sheaf

Forlorn, before

The splish and splash

Restored the drooping leaf

I like the swooshing sound, that hisses

Beneath traffic rush

The stinging pelt,

The velvet kisses

Whisp’ring hush, hush, hush

I like the rain

Silver-note strains

That lilt and laugh and glide

And wash the world

With hymns unfurled

On town and countryside

...and when they halt

I like the way earth's vault,

is filled with praise

Of feathered throng song exalting

The kind Creator's ways 

© Janet Martin

Imagine if God didn't send rain until all people who have sinned against Him repent?!

From 1 Kings 8:35-36 (From Solomon's prayer of dedication)

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain 

because your people have sinned against you, 

and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name

 and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, 

36 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. 

Teach them the right way to live, 

and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.