Lately.
Oh Lately… it’s been hard to stop. I am not sure if that’s necessarily a negative thing, because some value productivity. And though I have been quite productive lately and doing lots, I have found myself also wondering if I need to be doing ALL that I do. Or all I desire to do.
So when I think of a meditative prompt today and what to think about to meditate this week, these words come to me: “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” Psalm 46:10 So I look up the word STILL , in the concordance in the Hebrew lexicon and find these words: to sink, relax, abate which means ( lessen, reduce, or remove (especially a nuisance);to let drop, abandon, relax, refrain, forsake, to be quiet. Desist. ( from acts of sabotage.) To discontinue or suspend. Stop.
So I went on a walk yesterday, challenging my soul to be still. A walk I shall call: a rainwalk. There was this light, consistent, and refreshing sprinkle, I noticed outside…and the rain smelled SO GOOD.
So off I went.
The rainwalk was so very enlightening about my need for soul care. Okay, let me preface why I ventured out… I was in my writer’s group on Saturday past, and the group of women were talking about how rain can be so lovely, and I asked myself silently: “ Then why haven’t you been out IN IT, in this season of a rain-drenched spring, Jennifer Owens?
And so, I challenged myself to take my music and the rain and go head on… yesterday on my Sunday walk. And I loved it so very much. I actually was amazed how quiet and how I went again today, and took my hubby. It was interesting and quite funny, in fact, to see how uncomfortable he was, at first and reluctant to do so. ” See …you haven’t melted yet!” I tell him.. and He liked it so much, we walked the block twice. Sort like I did, yesterday, and then again today.
How many of us are reluctant to walk in the rain? How many of us fail to feel the refreshing of the day and ‘risk’ if you will – the rain fall on face? If you have yet to experience that joy, that sheer delight and refreshing, feeling…you have indeed missed one of the most delicate and treasured intimacies of being alone with God.
Here is what I saw along the way… so delightful I was…
*(Note to self: take my camera next time.. yes, even in the rain…)
SO TAKE your rainwalk next time it rains… ever so lightly… Peace.
Me. Walking in the rain….
