After months of drought this summer in our part of Texas, we finally received some much-needed rain toward the end of August.  This was a great blessing to our family because we raise so much of the food we eat, and we had struggled with irrigating crops all during the growing season. 
 
Well, the morning it decided to rain, I was cooking breakfast in the kitchen while my children were seated around the table practicing their penmanship.  I was so very pleased with the change in weather, that I was singing my favorite church hymn, "The Unclouded Day." 
 
My six-year-old piped up and asked disgustedly, "Mom, why would anyone write a happy song about an unclouded day?" 
 
After thinking about it for a few seconds, I replied, "Well, son, I don't guess that he was a farmer."  To which he responded, "After you've prayed every day this year for rain, I don't think God would be happy that you're singing that song, and I sure hope that man was wrong, because I don't want to go be with God if he never lets it rain there!"
 
                                                                   ~ Lauren Mason, Donie

 

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