Healing
Rain
“Healing
rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or
emotional, or whatever.”
Michael
W. Smith
Yesterday
it rained for the first time in forever and my friend, Harry, came
through his quadruple by-pass surgery with aplomb. It was a good day.
It's interesting to me how one's busy, sophisticated life can be shaved down to a single point when a crisis occurs. Suddenly
everything we thought important recedes into the background, and we
are utterly focused and fine tuned.
We've
had so little rain here and so much relentless heat (as have other
parts of the country), that my fig tree finally gave up the ghost,
and my back yard looks like a dried-up river basin in the desert.
I've tried to water the things that matter—my little garden, some
newly planted crepe myrtles; and I've kept water out for the birds
and squirrels and stray cats. I see them all drinking from the same
basin; a heat-induced truce I suppose. Beyond that, it's too
expensive to water, and not a good use of a limited resource. If this
heat is 'the new normal' as scientists are suggesting, we'd better
learn to conserve water.
We
cooked supper last night for the latest team of tornado
volunteers—this time from an island named 'Pass-A-Grill' in
Florida. We asked how the place got such an odd name. They told us
there once was a fisherman who set up a make-shift grill on the
beach. There, he cooked seafood to sell. His grill was a landmark
that Portuguese sailors used to locate 'the pass beyond the grill'.
Who knows whether that account is factual; the important thing is
that it makes for a good story. The volunteers were sun-reddened from
working in the Alabama heat—seems strange for Floridians to come to
Alabama and get sunburned.
Harry
will no doubt feel like a new man with his better, stronger heart.
Still, the rest of us will watch over him, hover you might say. No
one was prepared for Harry to go to his final rest in such a
quicksilver way. He's the 'health-nut' among us. It's just not right.
I
hope your day is filled with healing rain. It will be a pleasure to
walk in its cool aftermath.
In
the spirit,
Jane
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