Ketchikan, Alaska

Let it rain.

If you don't like rain stay away from Ketchikan.  The average annual rainfall in Ketchikan is over 150 inches.  That's right, around 12.5 feet of rain falls on Ketichkan every year.  Compare that amount to just over a foot of rain that falls annually in Colorado Springs.

This boat appears to have seen its share of rain.

But where would we be without the rain?  The fires in Colorado this past summer showed the danger of little precipitation. The High Park fire in northern Colorado burned over 87,000 acres of land and consumed 259 homes.  And the most destructive fire in Colorado history, the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs, burned nearly 29 square miles of forest, destroyed 346 homes and took two lives.

"[The Lord] covers the heavens with clouds, provides rain for the earth, and makes the grass grow in mountain pastures."  Psalm 147:8 NLT

God is the source of the blessings that rain down upon our lives.  Each of these blessings are but a foretaste of the blessings yet to come, however we soak them in today.

Where is the refeshment of God's rain pouring into your life? 

Your life might feel like the parched Colorado earth, waiting for just one drop of rain.  God provides.  Jesus' thirst on the cross means that he understands your thirst.  It is his sacrifice that pours God's blessings into your life.

Growing up in Oregon I know rain but I never owned an umbrella as a kid.  I felt the rain.  May you feel the rain of God's blessings smacking you in the face today.

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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012 Douglas P. Brauner.  ARR.