Come Clean

Today there was a torrential downpour that caused massive flooding like this:


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And during the thunderstorm I kept having the urge to lay down in a room full of candles or finding myself staring out the window into the rain thinking things  like, "Let it wash away my sanity", "I wanna feel the thunder", "I wanna scream", "I'm coming clean"

Let's throw it back to some classic Hilary Duff(who, I admit, I still call Lizzie McGuire sometimes...) for giving us such great rainy day lyrics

Rain, Rain, Go Away

I woke up this morning, brimming with excitement to go outside and do everything I had planned for the day. The inside of my head was like the opening song to High School Musical 2. With every beath I took I could hear Troy Bolton's whispers of "Summer....Summer...Summer" gradually growing louder and with more urgency. Summer was upon me and I needed to take full advantage of it! I hopped out of bed, skipped over to my window and found this:

Rain. Coming down hard. Mother Nature apparently never watched High School Musical 2 and missed the memo that this was the part when I was suppose run out into the sunshine and break into song. For a minute I was ready to concede my plans and just go curl up in bed with a good book, but then I thought, "Ya know what? I'm going to show this rain who's boss". After pulling on rain boots and jacket and I went out to give the rain a talking to.


Ready for the rain

 

Rain stare down.

 My intimidation tactics seemed to work because an hour later the sun came out and it was an absolutely GORGEOUS day. Needless to say, it was thoroughly enjoyed.

It may seem a little strange that my blog is called Sunny Side Up, yet my first post is all about rain, but, as it turns out, it is actually completely fitting. It is not the light from the sun that I depend on to guide me and bring me joy, but rather the light of the Lord! He has brought me out of darkness and into His wonderful light( 1 Peter 2:19) and it is His word that is the lamp to my feet that guides me along my path (Psalm 119:105). A little fall of rain(nor anything else for that matter) will never extinguish His everlasting light. In Him I have every reason to always wake up with the excitement of a beautiful day, to always look on the bright side of things, and to always live with the sunny side up.