~ Waiting...and then the rains came down ~

Yesterday the rains finally came after weeks of barely a drop. So I thought I’d go out and enjoy some of that downpour…it was actually kind of fun. I set my camera up in the garage and ran out into the rain. My husband thought I was crazy, I asked him to join me but he wasn’t game for the idea, maybe another time :-) I remember doing this as a kid, just running out in the summer rains getting all soaked.

 

Though we live in a society of instant gratification, where it’s like we needed it yesterday, there are still times where we must wait. We’ve exhausted our resources whether that be financially or emotionally and we are left to wait it out. It’s kind of like waiting for the rains after weeks and weeks of nothing, you can’t make it happen, it will come when God decides for it to come.

 

It is in the waiting that we learn perseverance, patience, acceptance, relying on someone else other than ourselves and realizing that we can’t do it alone. It is also realizing that sometimes all of our waiting will not result in the end we would like to see. I think of parents who desperately want to have a child and no amount of trying or waiting makes that happen, they are still left without a child. Parents who wait year after year for their child who has walked out thinking they could do life on their own and didn’t need their parents…the anguish they must feel of wondering where that child is. Some wait for life to take a turn employment wise so that life isn’t just about making it and barely making it. Others wait for a healing that never comes and their loved ones are left behind asking that question “why?” why is one healed and not another? Some wait for loved ones to come home from war, some come home and some don’t and life is forever changed.

 

Some of our waiting is joy filled and full of anticipation.

Waiting for that baby to be born

Waiting for your child to come home after such a long time apart

Knowing that your son, daughter, husband or wife will come home from their tour of duty and waiting to see them for the first time in a year

Waiting for a special day or a special trip away

Waiting to see that special someone that you haven’t seen in such a long time

 

Waiting…we all experience it…some of that waiting brings joy and some sorrow and sadness. I think that it is in the waiting; in those times of tough waiting that we still have to choose life and not just live for what may never be. When we live our lives solely for what we are waiting for we tend to miss day to day life and the little blessings that are scattered along the road of our waiting.

 

Done