Rejoice With Those Who Rejoice
Yesterday afternoon the girls were out walking their dogs. We also are in the middle of a yard project that removed a lot of our grass. While they were gone it started to rain fairly heavily. When they returned and walked across the construction zone they came in dripping wet and the dogs shook off spraying water all over the kitchen. Then they bolted through the house leaving a trail of muddy paw prints behind them as they headed for the couches. I sighed and we began cleaning up the mess even as the girls shivered in their wet clothes. Alex glanced at her phone which had multiple friends posting on social media about the beautiful rainbows in the area. I looked outside but only saw dark grey clouds and gloomy rain. Alex commented, "I guess some people got rainbows and we got the wet dogs and mud." Isn't life like that? At those moments isn't it easy to forget about all the rainbows you've seen in the past? As I looked at the mess,...