Quotes About Liquid Sunshine

Do not pray when it is raining if you don't pray when the sun is shining. Unknown




I was just talking to my husband over breakfast this morning about how miserable it has been this summer. All it seemed to do all month is rain. I was so sick of gloomy skies that it was beginning to affect my moods. I was ready to pack up and head south. Sure they get rain there too, but surely not as much as we have gotten this month! If I could have sunshine all summer long and winter too for that matter, I would be a whole lot happier.

And then my husband pointed out that if it wasn't for all the rain that we have had this summer, my front garden wouldn't be close to as lush as it is. Well, he has a point there. We moved into our house in the fall, two years ago and it was only in the spring that we managed to put in a garden at all. Sadly to say, it looked pretty sparse but thanks to the rain, every plant has tripled in size. So, I guess I need to rethink how I feel about rain... I'm taking all of those gloomy words out of my vocabulary and I'm going to start thinking of rain as much needed Liquid Sunshine!
Let the rain kiss you.  Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.  Let the rain sing you a lullaby.  *Langston Hughes

Something Soothing About the Rain

As I sit here this morning, it is raining yet again... actually it is the second time it has rained today it's not even 11 a.m. yet. I think that we must have the thickest, lushes grass on the planet. Okay, it is also the wettest, but I guess you can't have everything. At least it's not yellow and crunchy!

Here's to the sun coming out this afternoon and the skies will turn blue instead of gray! Still, all in all, there really is something soothing about the sound of rain. This morning I sat out on the porch with my coffee and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Everything smelled so fresh, the air was warm and all was right with the world!

It's raining buckets and buckets here. I have never heard a sump pump go off every few seconds before. Slightly worried that I might have a swimming pool in my basement before the day is over!

More Thoughts About Rainy Days

Like a gardener, I believe that what goes down must come up.
Lynwood L. Giacomini

I guess that would explain the rain that is falling as we speak!

Quotes about Rain (1)
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
Charlie Chaplin

“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.

Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
Ray Bradbury

Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing

*Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
Dodie Smith

*And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
Truman Capote

*it rains when youre here and it rains when youre gone.
Taylor Swift

*“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”

James Dickey quotesQuotes about Rain (1)
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
Charlie Chaplin

“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.

Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
Ray Bradbury

Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing

*Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
Dodie Smith

*And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
Truman Capote

*it rains when youre here and it rains when youre gone.
Taylor Swift

*“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”

James Dickey quotes

It's Another Rainy Day

I was really hoping for a warm sunny day today, but it doesn't seem to be in the cards. Have company for the Easter weekend and it looks as if we are going to have to bide our time until tomorrow when the temps will leap into the 70s. That should be nicer. Can't have horrid weather for the Easter Bunny!!

I wonder what it is about a rainy day that makes you just want to curl up under a blanket and sleep away the afternoon?

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