Be Careful What You Wish For!

Down here in Southern California it gets pretty hot and very dry for an extremely long time. So dry that you can taste the dust in the air and get very tired of dusting your house over and over. So hot that you don't want to move and can't stand to pay the a/c bill.
Yes, we are blessed by great weather most of the time, but the very hot spells are sometimes just too long and in need of a cool break. It's the dryness that I can't stand. There are just too many months that go by with no rain at all and we often get warnings of water shortages. Everything just feels so dry and dirty and the only way to fix that is to ask God to give us some rain from time to time.

The only problem is that when God does decide to give the rain to us he gives it to us all at once!

Guess what happens to land when it is so dry and suddenly a bucket of water is poured over it....yep, mud slides.
Guess what happens to trees that don't have deep roots in dry dirt....yep, they fall down.
Guess what happens to people who aren't used to rain, wind, lighting when they are driving....yep, accidents.
Guess what happens to roofs that haven't been wet in almost a year......yep, all the loose parts show up with leaks.

So as we try to be safe and not get swept away in the flooded areas or blown away by the 80 mile per hour winds or crushed by the falling trees or irritated by the expense of needed repairs - we need to be thankful for the rain.