On gloomy days, it’s hard to remember that rain brings life. Each year at the end of the winter and beginning of spring, I watch my backyard in awe as I see all the trees and grass and plants start to grow miniature little buds that represent new life. In the winter, everything appears dead, but nature only goes to sleep and holds life inside of it until the right time, everything wakes up. Spring is the time to bloom and grow again!

Without the rain none of that would happen. There is no life without water from the sky. Rain brings life and with it comes new hope, new beginnings, new growth. In our lives, we can experience a winter season where everything seems to go dark and gloom surrounds us. But it is during those times that God works in our hearts to prepare us for the spring. In order for rain to come, the clouds have to form in the sky which in turn cover the light from the sun. Similarly, when we allow God to work in our hearts during our darkest times, we ready ourselves to receive the growth and new beginnings that come with the sunlight and after the rain.

Below are scriptures that remind us of God’s promises about the rain:

Leviticus 26:4 I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

Deuteronomy 11:14 …then he will send the rains in their proper seasons—the early and late rains—so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil.

If you are going through a tough season in your life, share it with a friend and open you heart to God’s healing. I will leave you with a friendship poem from my book The Friendship Book: Because You Matter to Me:

Friends know when you hurt.

Open up and let them in.

They will help you heal.