Prayer for a rainy day

Lord, You send the rain to bless us. Your gifts are as numerous as the drops that fall to the earth. You send Your love in downpours, thunderstorms, lightning, in a full array of glory. How can we deny Your goodness when the gutters are filled to overflowing?

Help us to receive Your blessings. Give us taste buds to know the richness of your blessing, minds to comprehend and marvel in your glory, hearts moved to sing and tell of Your goodness. And though we fail to see and receive this love with thanksgiving, fill us again and again.

Give us childlike amazement that we would beg for more. The world should not have been, but in the beginning God spoke and the downpour of blessing began. Do it again! Do it again! Let the sun rise again, let the moonbeams shine again. Let the rain clouds pour again. Let us rejoice in blessed redundancy, in the extravagance with which God gives us extraordinary miracles. Let us delight in the common and the natural, for we are too naturalized to see with wonder.

Bless us with eyes to see and love the rain.