The land of rains

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I am back to my homeland, the land of rains and coconuts. I love rains, because it reminds me of many things. After a hot summer, the rains bring down the temperature and the sweaty humid climate turns to one with 100% humidity, but pleasant because the temperature has dropped too.

The heat which evaporates the ground water, the water raising up as water vapour, and this water vapour condensing inside a cloud to form these dark clouds. And as the clouds become too heavy, it releases the water as rains. And this rains, cools the temperature, washes the dusty dirty earth and bring life to the drying plants and other vegetation.

 

A picture of life too. As the heat in our life becomes unbearable, we sublimate our pain and discomfort to heavens. And when this becomes overwhelming, it pours out as tears and these tears refresh the soul, cleans the heart and brings life back to us.


The clouds that are dark, seems threatening at times, but the assurance is that this too will pass. When rain falls, the clouds lose its threatening colours, and the blue refreshing sky appears again! 

 

The rain is also an opportunity for the vegetation to start afresh on a new journey of life too. After being dried up, it is ready for another season of growth and bringing refreshment to others. The animals in the wild do not need to travel far in search of water, because there are pools and streams all around. 

 

Even our tears, if well directed can become life giving to self and others. And lead us to a season that much different from what we have passed through.

 

This is what the good books says about seasons…


“There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:

A right time for birth and another for death,
A right time to plant and another to reap…..
A right time to cry and another to laugh,
A right time to lament and another to cheer….
A right time to search and another to count your losses,
A right time to hold on and another to let go….


3 But in the end, does it really make a difference what anyone does? I’ve had a good look at what God has given us to do—busywork, mostly. True, God made everything beautiful in itself and in its time…”


Holding on even in tough seasons, recognising that refreshment is possible, because He makes it beautiful in its and His time. And when He does it, rain becomes a flow that will refresh the sallow ground and lives around too!

 

 

 

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