Today’s weather was a bit back and forth, back and forth.
The forecast was for rain (which was good because it would mean I don’t need to water my newly soiled and seeded lawn)– and it rained overnight, and was dreary and grey cloudy skies as to be expected this morning.
However, by around lunchtime the sun came out, the skies became blue, and it even warmed up a bit.
It stayed this way right up until after school pick-up time, when it started drizzling again, and then quickly turned into a dark, cold downpour.
When it came time to pick up my older daughter from basketball two hours later, however, the skies cleared up once more and the sun began to shine, drying up all the rain.
While the unpredictability of today’s weather has been a bit of a nuisance in terms of trying to plan ahead (had to switch from having my preschooler play on the playground after school to making a trip with her out to the library while the older one was in basketball), it has been nice with it’s surprised of sunshine in the midst of what was forecasted to be a weekend of all rain….
Even more than that, this type of weather is the very scenario I had thought to myself yesterday, if we could have consistently consecutive rain followed by sunshine, then perhaps the grass seed in my backyard would have a chance of growing quicker and even showing up for my girls’ second week of spring break?
I didn’t expect the cycle to occur twice in one day, but perhaps that makes today count as two or three in the life cycle of grass?
Of course weather is something we really don’t have any control over, but it is most definitely something I receive as a blessing from above when it goes in my favour, especially when it is unexpectedly unusual…
How God can lead and help us to grow our hearts and character in an accelerated way (faster than what would occur if left to the natural course of life) sometimes can look and feel a lot like today’s weather.
Speeding up the cycles so revelation of our weaknesses and broken areas of our hearts can be detected (ie when there are repetitive patterns occurring across multiple situations/relationships and we finally realize with little room for doubt that we in fact are the only common denominator), identified, and then dealt with, healed and overcome…