Prayer on a Rainy Day

Pitter pat, pat, pat
goes the rain outside the window.
Lord,

It's a calming sound,
a sleepy sound,
a deceivingly peaceful sound.

For those same pitter pats
can quickly become a torrent river
washing away everything in it's path.
Just ask Noah,
or anyone who has experienced a flood. 

Lord,
today it's a gentle rain
lulling me to sleep...
Pitter pat, pat, pat.

When I wake,
the vibrant grass,
the budding flower,
the buzzing bee,
the singing bird
will greet me
awakened, anew, afresh,
on a Spring day.

For now,
it's the pitter pat, pat, pat
of a promise being fulfilled.
"For as the rain and the snow
come down from heaven and
do not return there
until they have watered the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower
and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be
that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish
that which I purpose
and succeed in the thing
for which I sent it."
--Isaiah 55:10-11

Pitter pat, pat, pat
Amen