Healing Rain

After living through one of the worst rainy seasons in Costa Rica, I felt that I might not ever rejoice in rain again.  However, here in Honduras, the country has been so dry.  Everything has turned brown, and wild fires have been going through their country in all of their fury.  Tuesday all 3 flights from San Salvador to Tegucigalpa were canceled because there was so much smoke in the air the pilots wouldn't have been able to see well enough to land.  Many people all over the country were praying that the rain would return.  Here in Santa Ana it was difficult to breathe as there was so much smoke in the air.  Last night we were able to sleep with the calming sound of rain falling on a tin roof.  More than the pleasantness of the sound, we rejoiced that once again the land would begin to be nourished and the damaging fires would be extinguished; also, as the fires go and the rains come, the crops will begin to grow.  Please pray that the rains continue, but that the rains to not become floods.

A few years ago, Micheal W. Smith sung a song about Healing Rain.  Every year when the rains return, I think of this song:

Healing rain is coming down
It's coming nearer to this old town
Rich and poor, weak and strong
It's bringing mercy, it won't be long

Healing rain is coming down
It's coming closer to the lost and found
Tears of joy, and tears of shame
Are washed forever in Jesus' name

Healing rain, it comes with fire
So let it fall and take us higher
Healing rain, I'm not afraid
To be washed in Heaven's rain

Lift your heads, let us return
To the mercy seat where time began
And in your eyes, I see the pain
Come soak this dry heart with healing rain

And only You, the Son of man
Can take a leper and let him stand
So lift your hands, they can be held
By someone greater, the great I Am

Healing rain, it comes with fire
So let it fall and take us higher
Healing rain, I'm not afraid
To be washed in Heaven's rain
To be washed in Heaven's rain...
Healing rain is falling down
Healing rain is falling down
I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid...