Pray for Rain

I have always loved rain. Growing up we lived three houses from the St. Johns River. When rain came, I would go down to the river and sit beneath a heavy canopied oak tree and watch the rain come down on the river. It was such a peaceful, cleansing time.
Last week I was awakened by a noisy thunderstorm. I got up and went to the kitchen window and watched the lightning dance. It was quite a show. I crawled back into bed and listened to the symphony of the storm. I loved the mixed notes and thought that we are blessed to serve such a mighty God.
There is another rain coming. A rain that will wash away all heaviness and oppression/ There is a song that says, "Pray for rain when your life is dry and thirsty. Pray for rain when your life is void and empty. Pray for rain when you don't know what to pray; pray for rain."

Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things...Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month]...And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. Joel 2:21, 23, 25