(Madisyn Taylor)
We are not always glad to see rain make its appearance each spring, accompanied as it is by clouds and cancellations, muddy boots, and limited visibility. Yet, without it, summer's lushness would be less deep and less vibrant, the earth more exposed and unprotected from the sun's heat, and browns instead of greens would dominate the landscape. Rain after a drought is always recognized for the blessing that it is, the forerunner of flowers and fruit.
Even though most of us admittedly prefer sunshine to rain, we can appreciate the rain as part of the intertwining cycle of opposites that makes our world go around, wet and dry, dark and light, cold and warm, each giving way to the other in equal measure. Their interdependence offers us another window into the inner workings of nature and life in general. In our personal lives, there is also a time for resting and a time for growth, a time to allow and receive, and a time to blossom forth with abandon in full colour.
As the days grow longer and the rain grows first warmer and then less frequent, the earth will begin drying off and the promised buds will burst in every imaginable colour. Until then, the rainbow after the rainstorm serves to remind us of what's coming with a display so otherworldly that we can't help but love the showers.
My Thoughts:
I love the rain … well only if I don’t have to go out in it.
As far as I am concerned there is nothing nicer than to be curled-up with a book or settling down to sleep listening to the rain lash against the window or pattering on a roof. It is hypnotising and so evocative, conjuring up all kinds of fantasies in my mind.
Don’t get me wrong, I do love the hot summer days and to bask in the sunshine as well, but it is the rain that feeds my imagination. It can be so ingenious, from a soft intermittent splattering right up to the full-blown storms, the ones that rock the world right down to its socks. Each has a unique beauty.
Sitting in the study watching storms out to sea, is however also scary. The driving rain and howling winds take on a whole new perspective. It becomes dangerous out there and nothing is safe … but viewed from behind the safety of glass it is hypnotic.