It Rained Today

It rained all day, and as I sat in the waiting room of the hospital I felt my mortality. There were people all around me with different issues. I heard someone down the hall talking about a brain tumor. An older couple came in to the waiting room. They were well dressed, and the husband helped his wife fill out the form. She cried, it was one of the soft cries that breaks your heart. A cry from deep down in the soul, and I thought of my Mom. I remembered toward the end of her life she would cry like that, I held back the tears. I couldn't take it any longer, I walked over and sat next to her and put my hand on her back. She looked out the window at the rain, then at me and said this is a terrible day to be here. I smiled and said but it's going to be all right, and asked if I could pray for her. She nodded yes and introduced her husband to me. She asked if I was a nurse, and I said no I'm a patient here for a biopsy.

I felt comfort comforting her, and as I walked back to my chair I thought of my Mom. I am my Mother's daughter, I smiled to myself and thought that is exactly what my Mom would have done. I remembered her sitting in waiting rooms for tests, and pushing her wheelchair over to comfort someone else.

I pulled out a devotional from my purse, in fact it was one I had given my Mom a couple of years ago for her birthday. We were at the Christian book store and she kept putting things on her lap (she said she was Christmas shopping, for her self. LOL) Anyway, I wrote down a scripture and put it in a magazine along with a note and my phone number. I gave her the magazine to read and she smiled, her name is Marge.

As I think about the rain and how it washes away everything in it's path, it reminds me of how God washes us new. I was destined to be there today to meet Marge, she reminded me of how fragile we all are. I thank God for giving me a Mom like mine, I would have missed out on the joy of comforting Marge if I had not had her example in my life. She always reached out and loved those around her.

As Manny and I were driving home we saw the most beautiful double rainbow, another sign of the promises of God after the rain!

I pray my life would be like the rain, touching everything in my path for the glory of God. What a wonderful thought that we can also be like that rainbow, reflecting God's beauty in the earth.