Let it RAIN!!!

      So, no doubt some of you will assume this to be only a spiritual post and there will be some of that, but really the title is inspired by the reality of rainy season starting here in Cambodia. Welcome to rainy season, where it rains at least once a day and sometimes for the whole day... I am not a huge fan... The one nice thing about the rain is that it does cool down the days and makes the heat a little more bearable. Sometimes it rains so much that the streets completely flood... I have to say, if the water didn't look like it came straight from the sewer I would love to play in the streets with the kids... So the streets flooding can sometimes be a problem because tuk tuk's and moto's (which are the modes of transportation here) have a really hard time getting through the high waters and sometimes you are forced to just wait for the water to go down or wade through it (which I have already had to do...) and hope that no rats run across your feet.

    Other than the physical complications to life that come with rainy season, it is a cool picture to think of how this country, though sometimes the rain get's to strong and floods, would not survive without the rain. Seeing this reminds me of the worship song "Grace Like Rain"... In Israel, there was not a lot of rain, there was normally just enough to sustain you until the next tiny rain came along. Here there is nothing small about the rains we have here, but just coming out of the dry season and having the chance to see the fields during the dry season, it became evident to me that this country could not survive without the rain... Similarly, in my own life, I need God's grace to rain down on me, and in my life, there have been times or seasons where I have not felt that grace and I have felt dry, but the rains always seem to come when I think that I just can't take it any longer.

    So for this I am grateful, that God would allow me to have this physical picture of His grace for me... THAT THE  STREETS MIGHT FLOOD WITH HIS GRACE AND MERCY!!! THAT THE CHILDREN MIGHT GATHER IN THE STREETS TO ENJOY THE BOUNTIFUL GRACE OF OUR LOVING FATHER!!! THAT THE LORD MIGHT RAIN HIS GRACE ALL OVER US!!! MAY YOU FIND THAT YOU ARE DRENCHED IN HIS GRACE TODAY!!!

   "Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but He will heal us; He has injured us, but He will bind up our wounds. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will restore us, that we may live in His presence. Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge Him. As surely as the sun rises He will appear; He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that cover the earth."
    -Hosea 6:1-3 (NIV)