Rain Helps Everything

Rain is such a wonderful thing that, sadly, we don't get to see often enough out here.  But tonight was different. 

We were looking at the radar on the internet and were saddened by the news it showed.  We were again out of range of the near-by rain.  But as we continued watching, a nice sized cloud formed right over us and we looked outside just as it began to rain; not a heavy sprinkle, or a trace, but real, heavy rain!  The sight and sound of real rain was long missed and quickly welcomed to the ranch.

After a few minutes of rain, our county was put under a severe thunderstorm watch, with a chance of hail and a few rotations.  We personally did not see any hail.  When the rain had slowed down (about an hour later) we all went outside and played in the puddles and actually used an umbrella, though we really didn't need one.

The big rain had passed leaving two inches in the rain gauge and a few sprinkles still falling from a cloud above.  We three kids ran around the ranch bare-foot and had a race on our rock driveway, and yes, our feet were pink and kind of hurt.  It was barely sprinkling now and we all loaded up in the pickup to drive around and look at the water.

With we three kiddos in the back of the pickup, Dad and Mom in the cab, we drove through and around puddles made by the rain.  There was a lot of lightning around, so we got to watch a nice show while driving on the muddy dirt road heading south.  A few spots in the road were covered with water and some ditches were full.  In one low spot, the water was flowing under the road and do you know what's amazing?  Frogs are so amazing, but their Maker is even more so!

We were driving around and when we stopped to look at the water, there pretty close to the road, were what sounded like thousands of frogs croaking their joy of the rain.  We have been in a huge drought, we have not seen one frog in at least a year, but yet tonight after this big rain, there are tons of frogs alive and well!  How did God make them so well?!  He is God, he knows everything.  It is just remarkable that they can live through dry weather like this.

We came home after running bare-foot in a huge puddle which also crossed the road.  And to end this wonderful day, we lit some fireworks and watched the little display.  Such a fun life!  And we thank God for all of it.  : )