Showers of Blessing

"You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it. You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops," (Psalm 65:9-10 NIV).

We are celebrating a half inch of rain we received yesterday. We haven't had rain here since June so I feel very blessed. It takes so long for the sprinkler to amount to anything measurable. Nothing blesses the ground as much as the living water from clouds. The dry brown grass is restored to green and the plants reach toward heaven with their branches and leaves, as if shouting praise to God for the blessing of rain.

I love to watch the clouds as a storm rolls in. I didn't get a picture of the shelf cloud that roared in yesterday but the pictures shown on television were remarkable. Clouds are so alive. Moving and changing as they drift through the sky.

"There Shall Be Showers of Blessing" by Daniel W. Whittle and James McGranahan, 1883, tells the story in song: "There will be showers of blessing: This is the promise of love; There shall be seasons refreshing, Sent from the Savior above. Showers of blessing, Showers of blessing we need: Mercy drops 'round us are falling, But for the showers we plead."

"There will be showers of blessing," (Ezekiel 34:26b NIV).

May your day be showered with blessing.