He Showed Me the Rain

As I have become older, I have thought about the impact we each have on the lives of others.
I have grieved over the loss of good friends who are gone.
And I have wondered "What happened?" to acquaintances who did not stick around long enough to be more than an acquaintance.
Usually these people were needy and took the gift of friendship and left.

Friendship takes time.
Friendship is like learning to dance.
Step by step you figure out the friendship rhythm without losing your own beat.
Friends complement your dance even if occasionally they step on your toes.

As I pondered the wonder and gift of friendship, the Lord showed me the rain.
The slow steady drizzle, a mist, and the drenching rain.
Rain that falls quickly, rain that covers with moisture and rain that arrives with noticeable intent.
As I questioned Him, "How and why can we pour out love and help into another person and just be forgotten?
Used in some instances and then discarded?
And He showed me the rain.

Rain that quenched the need of the earth, yet the raindrops were not noticed individually.
Yet, each drop met a need.
Rain, like friendship is a gift from God, meeting a need
Sometimes noticed only temporarily because it brought relief, not simply because it was rain.

Sometimes our gift of friendship to one another is like the rain.
Absorbed and forgotten, yet needed. A gift from God that has fulfilled its purpose.

So He uses us to rain His love and care
One drop at a time, rivers of living water, flowing out of our bellies-one to another.
Friends.
Friends who had been and friends who will be...
Filled and watered by His love.
One drop at a time.
I showed myself friendly and He showed me the rain.

~Debbie


Proverbs 18:24  A man [that hath] friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.

John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Ruth 2:13  Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.

Acts 14:17  Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.


*I wrote this originally in 2009 but it spoke to my heart again, so I am reposting it.





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At Heart I Am a Child

At times I publish some of my poetry from my poetry journal, Letting Go of Cockatoo Dreams.
Here is one of my poems.

At heart I am a child 
and the world and its trappings to much to bear
I am hidden 
as I pool my tears behinds eyes and ears

Hating the soul tear that rends my resolve to not cry

To not care

To hold my resolve 
 a broken baby doll

And then I remember

daddy

My father, God

who holds me gently and gathers my tears

Who reminds me while my sobs still hang in the air

Hush my child

It is alright to care

To fall, yet fly, 

under girded,

safely guarded 

In the shadow of His wings

It is there 

that I fly

At heart I am a child

learning to forgive, learning to forget

pressing forward unto a new way

At heart I am a child

His child

and today 

is a new day

~ 2012 Debbie Turner Chavers

Psalm 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?
Psalm 17:8  Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Psalm 59:16  But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.



All writing, poetry, posts, art, and photography, copyright © 2013 Debbie Turner Chavers. Protected by US and International copyright laws. All Rights Reserved. Scripture references taken from the King James bible. Would you like to see what I am currently painting? Click on these links http://artparables.com or http://debbieturnerchavers.com Would you like to hear a bible story read to you? Click here http://www.youtube.com/user/debbieturnerchavers