Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Perspectives


"Rain" means something other
If you're not from Arizona:
"Into every life..."*
(Twist you here the knife)
"A little rain must fall..."*
(Unmitigated gall).

At last God sent us rain
To ease this climate's pain
Elsewhere they have floods--
Nature's twisted torsades.**

I pray You come again,
Far moreso than the rain;
I want to see Your Face:
Lord, Jesus, come with haste.

---c.m.b.  (c), 2020

(a summer of record breaking 110+ days in Phoenix; no rain; high ozone)

*A paraphrase from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Rainy Day"  (see link below)
**Torsades:  an irregular heart rhythm

5 comments:

David C Brown said...

In the scriptures after the flood rain is almost always a blessing.I hope you get all you want!

C. Marie Byars said...

I hope we are blessed again. One day, and then it's gone again. We're having a super bad year in that regard. The "human" explanation is that La Nina is stalled below the equator. That can create either a very wet or a very dry year; a dry one was predicted, and that's what we got. The divine perspective? I, of course, cannot speak for God. And He's not into personal appearances too much in centuries. But I wonder... what signs are in all of this?

God bless you over there!

C. Marie Byars said...

I hope we are blessed again. One day, and then it's gone again. We're having a super bad year in that regard. The "human" explanation is that La Nina is stalled below the equator. That can create either a very wet or a very dry year; a dry one was predicted, and that's what we got. The divine perspective? I, of course, cannot speak for God. And He's not into personal appearances too much in centuries. But I wonder... what signs are in all of this?

God bless you over there!

David C Brown said...

As for signs I do not know but I think we can see the human failure in everything that fallen man touches.

C. Marie Byars said...

We are once again without rain. :(