It's a good life we live in. It's a terrible and cruel life we live in too. Two things so opposite of each other fill our lives with either hurt or joy. One thing must only be remembered. God is good.
The grass is parched and brown. There is a crunchy sound when you walk and it hurts your bare feet. The leaves fall off the tree to withered to survive to show their beautiful colors in the fall. Farmers walk through dry soil, stepping over deep cracks in the dry earth. Too many crops are just wilting away. This is life in KS where triple digit temps have ruled the summer and rain has begun to feel as a foreign notion in most minds.
We walk into prayer meeting and remind everyone to pray for rain. Of course God allready knows, but will the rain ever come?
The weather radio blars its loud signal right smack in the middle of church. No, tornados just a storm warning for somewhere not near the dry countryside we live in. Will the rain ever come?
Driving home there is a spactucular lightening show against the black sky. The air smells of rain and the trees are blowing, but is the rain coming? God knows and is faithful.
The lights dim and the wind is blowing hard with each bright white flash of lightening I see it. Rain drops. For hours it rains wetting the thirsty ground and giving life to crops teetering on the brink of death. The darkness prevents a rainbow, but there is no need I know God is faithful.
Is it not a reminder of God's goodness when it rains right after prayer meeting?
I hear the rain hitting the roof as I go to sleep and I think it has been a good last night in KS.
This is why life is good because God is faithful. Always.
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