Rain can ruin your weekend,
And rain can spare your life,
Depending on who you are,
And what your thirst is like.
– from “Some Folks’ World” by Mark Heard
The rain continues to fall here in southern California. Going on four days now. I feel like I’m in Seattle. Marti doesn’t like the rain but I secretly love it. I’ve been trying to figure out why, but I’m not there yet. It’s something that has to do with nature and God and me interacting. The rain on the roof or constantly dribbling on the gutter is like speech. It’s nature talking. I will feel lonely when it stops. Why is that? Maybe David can help.
“Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge” (Psalm 19:2). The psalmist seems to think like I do. He believes that the supernatural speaks to him through the natural. That there is a steady stream of communication going on here, and he who has ears to hear may understand it.
So what is the rain saying? One thing’s for sure: it is saying different things to different people. To my son and his big sister up in Big Bear right now trying to snowboard in the rain, it is not saying the same thing it is saying to me here in my office enjoying its steady banter. To the homeless trying to find a dry place to sleep tonight, it is not saying the same thing as it is saying to the tomato farmer in the central valley. Yet it is speaking nonetheless.
Life has hard lessons. My full-hearted weekend with my family clashed with the intense pain of a woman who lost her husband of 36 years. The rain falls equally on the just and the unjust and who can know it?
The important thing is to listen to what God is saying through whatever is going on in your life, good and bad. And the important thing is to thirst for God, for truth, and for obedience in everything. It’s all important, and it’s all from him, and it’s up to us to find out what the message is.
John Fischer The Catch 
The rain captivates my thoughts. It beats faster than the mindless chatter pouring through my head at times. It soothes my soul and causes me to experience present time. Rain washes the impurities out of the sky and leaves the tree leaves glistening.
It makes me think of the song about “I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses……and He walks with me and he Talks with me.”…..
Water is refreshing,cleansing and if I just go with it I find I turn to Jesus.
Rain is a signpost to Jesus in my life. I love the rain…..
Yes, the rain is comforting after a period of drought. It is a reminder that I am not in control and that the ground needs the drink. The plants desperately need the rain.
God planted them there before the houses. The people forget that without any rain, that they would eventually begin to die.
So,, the sound of rain means that the God- made reservoirs called “the forests in the mountains” are soaking up the rain like a sponge to slowly release it in the Spring and Summer. The Man-Made reservoirs are visually filling up as well.