The Blessings of Rain

When it rains, certain songs always come to mind. I will be sharing some of these songs with you below. I'll start with the popular songs that speak to our emotions.Then I'll share the songs that speak to our spirits and call us to be all be can be as we face the storms of life.

Rainy Day Feeling by ragtops

I took this picture from my car as we drove through San Luis Obispo in California on a stormy day.

It's been stormy all week here this week, and I am reminded of the rest of the lyrics to "Joy is Like the Rain." Part of another verse reads "Joy is like a cloud, sometimes silver, sometimes gray, always sun not far away. " I have been out taking pictures of the sky between storms and while the sun is setting. I decided to design some Zazzle products around them. You can change the words I chose or remove all words, and change the colors of some items. Have a good time.


Dark Storm Clouds Poster by barbsbooks
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Dramatic Cloud by andisart



Large Poster of Spectacular Dark Sunset by barbsbooks



Easter Card from Hymns of Faith Series by barbsbooks



iPad Case: Paso Robles East of Niblick Bridge by barbsbooks
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Rain Falliing at Sunset in San Luis Obispo, CA by barbsbooks
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Poster:-A Bend in a Country Road at Sunset by barbsbooks
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Poster: Rainbow Blesses Vineyards by barbsbooks
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Deut:11: 13-14
And if you will obey my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.


Job 5:10 ...he gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields...

This is the Salinas River in Paso Robles in a drought year -- 2009. There was not enough rain to fill any part of the river, and all parts of the riverbed here looked this way all year -- even after a rain. What water there was soaked into the ground.

This is the Salinas River after a rainy season. This was taken in February, 2010 after a series of rainstorms over several weeks. They brought enough rain to cause parts of the river to flow again. Some parts of the riverbed are just wet with no flowing water, but the channel closest to the west side of the river is flowing.

Storms test us. When our homes are flooded or rain causes mud to push our house down a slope, we often don't see the blessing in it. Maybe that's when we see what we have really built our lives on. When material goods are gone, what do we have left? Have we learned through life to trust God to provide so that we can continue to trust him in the darkness and through destruction of the storms? Sometimes all we have left is his promise to be with us and provide for our needs. The more time we have spent getting to know him and learning to trust him in the small things in life, the more we will be able to keep afloat during the storms as we trust him for the bigger things.

As we build our lives, he needs to be our foundation and cornerstone. He is the rock on which we must build. Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount that those who hear his words and do them are like the wise man who built his house upon the rock. When the rain fell and the floods came and the wind blew hard against that house, it did not fall because it was built upon the rock. But those who hear his words and don't do them will be like the foolish man who built his house upon the shifting sand. When the rains and wind hit his house, it fell, for it had no firm foundation.

To be ready for the storms of life we need, as the old song says, to build our house upon the rock.