Rain Song

Photo by Tami Collins
2011©

Happy New Year! I know it’s a little late as February is right around the corner, but it’s been a busy start. Much of my time has been spent trying to decide if I was going to get the stupid cold/flu thing or just feel run down and crummy for weeks on end. And, for some reason the lack of rain and snow in December and January this year has been unsettling both in the natural and in my spirit. Although, opening up the house and saving the firewood has been a blessing.

But, we need the rain!

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

– Deut. 32:2 NIV

Prayer answered. As I type this, I watch the beautiful, refreshing, life-giving rain fall on dry and thirsty ground. The first of three or so storms started marching their way through our area last Wednesday. They say we are at the tail end of the storm and it should all be gone by this afternoon, but I feel so refreshed and ready to tackle the year now. Lord, bring us more cleansing rain! We need it both in the natural and in the spirit.

I'm reminded of a song by Day of Fire that I love to blast in my car and sing at the top of my lungs…on repeat. It has become a prayer-song of such.

Rain Song

Bring rivers in this waste land,

Clouds into this sky

Bring springs of life into the wells that

Have been run dry

Rise up in this city

Gather in this light

Fall down on your people,

Your glory and your life

Rain, Lord we thirst for water

Rain, we are desert land

Rain, on your sons and daughters

Rain, bring your rain again

Speak dreams into this water

And vision to this land

That oceans be divided

And bring forth life again

Rise up on this city

Gather in this light

Fall down on your people

Your glory and your life

(Chorus x2)

Let the tide roll in

Washing over our lives

Let your water fall again

Bring rivers in this waste land

And clouds into this sky

(Chorus x2 )

Bring your rain again

Let your water fall down

Bring your rain again now

With the long-range weather forecast looking dry again, I will continue to ask the Lord to open up the heavens and bring the living waters upon our parched land and dry and weary souls.

⁵I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me, ⁶so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no other.

⁷I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.

⁸"You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

 - Isa 45:5-8 NIV



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