It's raining

It's raining and quite dreary outdoors today. It's one of those hot chocolate, soup in a bread bowl, snuggle under the covers with your honey, movie type days. The kids are watching Old Yeller and I am writing a blog. My honey just left to do a worship service at Sister's Community Church for their youth.
I am thinking about going to the store to get dinner, and then snuggle up and watch Emma with Gwyneth Paltrow in it, for the umpteenth time. What is it about rainy weather that feels so romantic to me? It is as though something within my soul was tuned to respond poetically in times of deluge.
Lately I have been reading James a lot, and Isaiah, as usual. Isaiah is my all-time favorite book in the Bible. Not quite sure why, but a friend said today that Isaiah is like it's own small Bible in one book. It tells of Jesus, prophetically, before He even came.

Here is a lovely verse from James:
"Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand." James 5:7-8
And another on rain from Isaiah:
"For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it."
My footnote underneath says just as water enlivens and strengthens a withering rose, God's word produces life in the hearts of sinners.
Good words. Beautiful words. Well, I am off now to snuggle down and be cozy on this dreary (yet beautiful) day. Enjoy friends!