Rain down on me

I love that I awoke to slate blue clouds and the zest of fresh air this morning. Rain down on me. Isn't it magnificent that we can smell things coming? I mean really think about what ties your brain to memories, and a lot of that will come back to smell. The aroma of greasy bacon and eggs traveling through the air from country kitchen to your nose early in the morning while you sleep instantly takes me back to Emory Texas. As a little girl my great grandparents had a farm in Emory, it was a kids dream. Chickens, horses, dogs, and all the mud you could get your hands on. Their kitchen was always stocked with moon pies and nilla wafers and every morning granny got up and cooked biscuits, bacon, and eggs in the left over bacon grease. Needless to say every time I smell that breakfast no matter where I am, my memory takes me there in an instant. I think its fascinating. Maybe that is God's way of ever so often entering our realm and reminding us of things that are important to us. Out of all of the most pleasing smells in the world, fresh rain takes the cake. Its like the Lord Himself took water from a pale and with His own hands baptized the earth. I say baptize because once a rain is over, all the plants immerse from hiding and are cleansed. The same thing happens when we are baptized. I know in the fancy sense of the word you have to be cleansed by water to be baptized properly, but I like to do it a little more often than that. I like to disinfect my spirit on the reg. I think it needs it. My heart spiritually dedicates itself by purifying it in the word. I will rinse, refine, and restore and once I am done the process starts all over. It is a daily battle being a "good" Christian when sin is braided into your life and seems to take over like poisonous vines in a garden. We all were born with it and over time we seem to just let sin mesh and become one with who we are. Today let's be one with the rain. Let's intertwine our souls with the rain and let it bathe us.

Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. -James 4:8