Rain rain go away…come again some other day…

It is raining today. We’ve needed the rain. I won’t have to finish watering the yard that my husband started yesterday! Yippee! I love crossing things off my “to do” list so easily.

As I sit listening to the rain coming down my mind wandered to that little rhyme from my childhood…rain rain go away…come again some other day. Do you remember that too?

I just realized this rhyme has little to do with rain and a lot to do with the reality we all fight with what is and want it to go away so we can have what it is we so badly want to have instead! It is just human nature to do so too.

Like all things there is good and bad in everything…I won’t get to see the sun rise this morning on one hand and on the other I won’t have to move the sprinkler around the yard today at all!

It is important to be able to see both the good and the bad in life’s situations. With out seeing both sides we are out of balance and life unfolds out of balance for us in all kinds of ways.

I’ve gone back to work as of Wednesday of this week for 1-2 hours each day, thankfully too. I am so very grateful for all the people who I work with. They have been so very supportive and happy to see me and so very helpful. My Substance Use Disorder team members have been filling in my group nights since early June for me and will have to continue to do so for several more weeks too as I slowly build up my energy and strength. I am so very grateful to them for pitching in as they have as well.

This rain in my life has taught me so very much that I would not have known if it hadn’t been raining so very hard for so very long!

I am filled with gratitude and appreciation for so many people and for so many small things in life and for learning more about how to let go and a great many other things too that I would not be holding in my heart at this very moment had the rain stopped before now!

All meant to be unfolding just as it is unfolding…all meant for me to be learning just as I am learning too…Amazing, life is just amazing!

What is unfolding in your life right now just as it is meant to unfold? What are you learning right now that you so badly needed to learn with it?