The drippy stuff affects us all. It is refreshing to most, especially as kids, but in everyday lives as we get older it's effects are at times felt on an emotional basis whenever we have to be out in it. Sometimes we weep when it rains, sometimes we react happily and stay indoors, maybe take the day off from work and duties as an excuse to not go out. Sometimes a warm outdoor shower after a blistering day in the desert is welcomed and elates us, and sometimes in tropical weather when rain showers come and go throughout the day, we just like to go out naked and feel the drops pelting down on our bare skin, then let them dry off us from the heat of the sun before sliding into the bath of the ocean water to wash off. We plan our activities by it and we use it as a metaphor to wash away or clear our worries, sins, or otherwise dirty or negative aspects to our lives.
Rain is important in our eco-cycle to replenish the moisture evaporated by the earth's atmosphere during the movements of the days and nights to refill the oceans and nourish the earth and crop growth. It bestows itself upon us by breaking out of great clouds in the sky and falling down in surprise movements. We are constantly trying to monitor it's existence by sophisticated storm system tracking equipment and radar devices on earth and in satellites in space.
I challenge you wherever you are if it is raining, and when it rains, to call upon it in gratitude and enjoy it. Take time for it and make allowances in your day for it if it affects you while you are driving, walking about or doing whatever it is that you do. Allow patience and be helpful of others. Dress appropriately, carry the umbrella, the rain coat, galoshes, layer for warmth if necessary. And, relish the rain, knowing that it is always temporary.
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