Singing and Dancing in the Rain

Just Singing, and Dancing in the Rain

Ok, this picture isn’t actually rain, its my daughter being goofy, but with the weather being Spring like this picture reminded me of the rain.

The other day everyone was in and out of the house in their short sleeves enjoying the unusually early warmth of the sun. Frisbees, bikes, dirty shoes... these were the order of the day. Then, within minutes, a cold front moved in, with it bringing all the kids into the house. Soon, the rain started to fall. Little droplets flicking up off the pavement of the driveway and watering the now budding trees. Then the torrential downpour begins! Creating small rivers and larges puddles, I hear it pelt at the window pane and look up to see the downpour....  Only to see that Someone had left the van door open!  I scramble to grab an umbrella, as my six year old notes, “I’ve never seen Mom use an umbrella!” Running out the door I quickly grab the hatch and to pull the door down. Thankfully, it was the back hatch, and thus being opened UP it had kept most of the water out of the van. Thinking on that, my thoughts didn’t move quickly enough to think that if it kept it out of the van, it had possibly accumulated on the top side of the door. As I pulled downward keeping dry from the still pelting rain, I ended up with a front side washed in rain water!  As I laugh about my lack of anticipation and preparedness, I think of life’s rain. We try to prepare and plan. We try to “stay dry” by using our umbrellas. But sometimes we still get soaked by life. Though we can’t control what rains will come, we have a choice over our reaction to the rain. We can find ourselves bitter and frustrated, or we can find ourselves just singing and dancing in the rain.