As it was misty almost raining this morning Erika said to me, "It's like God can't decide whether or not to cry."

   Why do we relate rain to tears?

   Personally I like rain, to me its like a clean slate. Rain washes away all the heat and all the mess of the day.

   In a way, it makes sense to call rain "God Tears". God tears sounds better to me than percipitation.  It's goes back to the metaphorically crying of God to make things fresh for us. I think I like that idea. Maybe they're sad tears, maybe sometimes they're even happy tears, but nevertheless they are tears.

   So when we curse the rain that ruins our plans and our cute hair, it's almost like cursing the fact that we're getting a clean slate for the day. And in the summer, when we go without rain, maybe that means that we're doing something right. That we don't need the rain because we have no real reason to need to start over. This rain that we all complain about isn't really something to complain about. It's something to embrace.

   I'll leave this here because the weather radar is giving me that idea that we may lose power here in a bit...