According to the Book of Genesis, it once rained for \u201cforty days, and forty nights\u201d (Genesis 7:4). According to the DFW Airport weather bureau, last Thursday was the forty-first day in north Texas without even a trace of rain. But nothing stays the same forever. Just like it eventually stopped raining in Genesis, it started raining in north Texas. Thursday, my temperature gage said it was 92 degrees. By late Friday night it read 38 degrees and my rain gage had recorded more than two inches of rain. You know what they say \u2013 \u201cIf you don\u2019t like the weather in Texas, just wait . . . .\u201d I\u2019ve even heard that during the flood of Noah\u2019s day, parts of west Texas got a quarter of an inch of rain. In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said that God \u201csends rain on the just and on the unjust\u201d (Matthew 5:45). True. Most of my neighbors fall into the \u201cjust\u201d category, but my one unjust neighbor got the same two inches of rain overnight. About that unjust neighbor, I feel a bit like Mark Twain, who said, \u201cThe rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors I would drown him.\u201d Lots of Texans have been going to church to pray for rain. Of course, most of them leave their umbrellas at home! Longfellow said, \u201cThy fate is the common fate of all; into each life some rain must fall,\u201d but he also said \u201cThe best thing one can do when it\u2019s raining is to let it rain.\u201d But, of course, Longfellow didn\u2019t live in Texas. My truck-driver grandfather, who was born in Texas and lived in Texas all of his life, believed that you shouldn\u2019t be angry at the rain, because it wasn\u2019t its fault, since it didn\u2019t know how to fall upwards. Lots of lessons to be learned from the rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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