Last Tuesday I posted a blog asking for prayer for rain. Things were mighty hot and dry around here. Crops were drying up and we were basically bathing in our own sweat since there wasn’t enough water stored up for necessities let alone showers.
On Tuesday night I went out into our soccer field just to worship, worship turned into prayers and before I knew it I was flat on the ground pleading with the Lord to send rain. An answer came back swiftly. He told me it was coming, that soon we would have more water than we knew what to do with.
Rain came as swiftly as the answer. The next day the sky clouded over, the heavens opened up and it poured. We grabbed shampoo bottles and ran out into the soccer field. We played, rolled around in the mud and then washed it all off with the rain, because we finally could. The boys all had grins that stretched from ear to ear. The hardship and worries that the drought had brought were in a sense washed away.
So here we are, one week later and it’s still raining. Our water tower is overflowing, the wells are all full and our pond has risen by a full meter. Just like God said, he gave us more water than we knew what to do with, blessing us ten-fold, and, with a cyclone on the way, it doesn’t look like the rain will be stopping any time soon.
The only downside to this weather? My tent flooded, or more specifically huge quantities of water found it’s way between my footprint and the bottom of my tent turning it into a very damp, leaky, waterbed concept. So I decided to move into the house to sleep where I proceeded to get about 500 bug bites (I only wish I were exaggerating). But, I’m not expecting life to be easy, actually on the contrary I wanted it to be difficult this month. At first I thought it would be more difficult due to the lack of water but now I’m I’m finding hardships in other things, and slowly those are seeming less and less difficult.
Who knows, by the end of this race I might be desensitized enough that I could sleep in the middle of the woods , on the ground, in the dirt and be ok with it…. but that would be weird….
