Rain

Tonight a small thunderstorm rolled through. I loved seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder. Liz and I decided to run out into the rain for a few minutes while Lizzard took some pictures. I love running and playing in the rain even when it's February and completely freezing. It's so freeing and exhilarating. Instead of running away and hiding from it it feels great to just embrace it and have fun.

This reminds me of something our speaker J.K. Jones Jr. said a few weeks ago on retreat. He talked about how we waste pain by trying to avoid it and get it over with when pain is actually a great tool for growing in our relationship with God. With the way things have been going the last few months I couldn't agree more. So instead of running away from our pain like we do a torrential downpour, we should embrace it, run around in it, explore it and find God in it. When we ask for God's help to run through the pain it's more manageable and when it's over we've developed this close bond to him that can only be found through the pain.