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“The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown can never come over again.” Charles Kingsley

Life Storms: Dreaming of Rain... and more

I have wonderful memories of cavorting in the rain as a child. Whenever the sky turned gray, and the trees seemed to stir in anticipation, my friends and I would gather under the awning of our home and wait for the first pittar-patter sounds of the rain to fall. And then, like eager little bees heading for nectar in a flower, we’d run into the downpour; laughing and dancing as the rain thundered down on our little heads. We got sopping wet, alright, but who cared? We were having fun in the rain and our daily fears and cares were washed away in that swift deluge of cold rainwater…

I don’t know when the carefree ways we enjoyed the falling rain disappeared… Do you? All I remember is waking up one day and avoiding the rain. Was it adulthood and all the storms that come with being a responsible adult that drove my love for dancing in the rain away? What I do know is that, even in the village, the adults avoided the rain. It was good for the crops, it showered us with blessings and an abundance of fish and food stuff, and even as I recall, when a good man died in the village, we knew the gods shed a tear because it would rain.

So why do we, as adults, no longer sing and dance in the rain? If it’s good for a joyful Hollywood movie, it must be good for us; a way to break our rigid patterns and do something refreshingly childlike for a change. Perhaps, like in the movies, for once we can be guileless and free; we’ll connect with that creative impulse that children often have. We’ll be childlike not childish… Who knows what we’ll find? Like Tyler Perry said, “Don’t let your dreams lose their color.” Would you like to join me and dance in the rain? Just one more time…. and then we can go sit under the warmth of the blazing sun. What does the rain mean to you? And the sun?

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