Fire for HIM

This morning, the rain began to come down in sheets.  We have a metal rooftop, so it was obvious that the sky had opened to moisten the ground.  I opened some windows and doors.  Without gutters on a two-story house, the view out the front door literally had become a curtain of water.  I went out and took a deep breath of the watery perfume...so good and refreshing.  I had to have more of this.  I went out my garage and a little into the driveway.  I stood and watched.  The yard was already full of water, and streams were running down the hill and joining together to race down the driveway, the mud color telling me they were taking part of my yard with them.  So much water...and all at once.  The most pleasant sight was the rain itself falling from the sky.  Gorgeous drops of rain clung to everything, adorning anything it touched.  Even our old, rusty basketball...

"Rocket Man" is a very silly movie that I find very funny and entertaining.  In the movie, there is a mission to Mars.  As I was setting my mind to have the proper perspective of a difficult situation, I was reminded of this movie. In the midst of being very distracted by a mess he has made during the journey thus far, someone gets the main character's attention and tells him to look out the window.  The crew has been sleeping for months as they traveled out into space, and then they look out to see the view of Earth.  It is beautiful and looks so very small from their perspective - beyond where any man has traveled thus far.  After a moment of awe and silence, the main character makes a statement that the Earth looks like a blueberry from way up where they are seeing it.  I was reminded this week that much depends on my current perspective of a situation.  Lately I have ...shall we s...