In Others’ Words: When Rain is Grace

Several people in my family love rainy days … and I have to admit, I don’t.

I don’t like driving in the rain when I can’t see the lines in the road.

I don’t like having to be out and about in the rain when my shoes get wet.

I don’t like what the rain does to my hair. Don’t ask. It isn’t pretty.

Yeah, rainy days make me grumpy.

But then, I read novelist John Updike’s quote: “Rain is grace.” 

And those three words reframed my thoughts about rain and rainy days. Because grace? Grace is what I long for … grace refreshes my parched soul. Grace is freely given to me. To everyone. Rain falls down to the earth freely, upon everyone — the “just and the unjust,” as it’s said. (Matthew 5:45)

Rain refreshes, as does grace.

Rain descends down to us, as God reaches down to us … walked among us so that He could understand us.

Rain gives life, as God does like no one else and nothing else does. 

In Others’ Words: Do you like rainy days — and if you do, why do you? If you don’t, why not? And do you agree with John Updike that “Rain is grace”?

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