A good friend and I were laughing about a fishing trip we took a number of years ago. We were sharing a tent with a couple of other friends and woke up to a small stream of water running through the center of the tent and the storm raging on.  The four of us ran over to the shower house and took up refuge under the eave.  With just a couple of hours to daybreak, we found it difficult to find anything positive in our situation.

Garrison Keillor, author, story teller and humorist, probably expressed how we were feeling that night when he said, “Thank you dear God, for this good life, and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain.  And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing; I thank you for that now because I won’t feel so thankful then.”

An attitude of gratefulness can be, shall we say… suppressed, when we walk out the door and find that there is rain falling on our life. Joshua 1:9 tells us “I’ve commanded you to be brave and strong, haven’t I?  Don’t be alarmed or terrified, because the Lord your God is with you wherever you go”

A silver lining may be hard to find in those storm clouds, but we must find courage and strength in the knowledge that God is with us, holding us up no matter what we may face. There is hope and light through the darkness.

Pray today, “Thank you Lord for this rain. I trust You’re with me and that You will never leave me.  Amen!”