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Healing Rain - or 5 Days in Seattle

The whole time I was in WaRshington last week, it rained. All except the day I drove to British Columbia to have dinner and spend some time with friends (and what a grand time we had!).

More than once, I thought of this Michael W. Smith song... when I got to snuggle on the couch and read with a six (and a half!) year old who has Cystic Fibrosis ...when my precious friends sat and talked with me about this journey we call life and reminded me of some very simple truths that were blurry through my tears... when Nate and I spent time on the phone...when I watched the rain fall day after day over Puget Sound...when I cried for over an hour yesterday in my own little bit of "healing rain"...

and I have to admit, I'm sometimes more afraid than I want to be...still... I am grateful...


Healing rain is coming down
It's coming nearer to this old town
Rich and poor, weak and strong
It's bringing mercy, it won't be long

Healing rain is coming down
It's coming closer to the lost and found
Tears of joy, and tears of shame
Are washed forever in Jesus' name

Healing rain, it comes with fire
So let it fall and take us higher
Healing rain, I'm not afraid
To be washed in Heaven's rain

Lift your heads, let us return
To the mercy seat where time began
And in your eyes, I see the pain
Come soak this dry heart with healing rain

And only You, the Son of man
Can take a leper and let him stand
So lift your hands, they can be held
By someone greater, the great I Am

Healing rain, it comes with fire
So let it fall and take us higher
Healing rain, I'm not afraid
To be washed in Heaven's rain
To be washed in Heaven's rain...

Healing rain is falling down
Healing rain is falling down
I'm not afraid I'm not afraid...

Doing the Right Thing

... it stinks sometimes...