Rain

While the tour was staying in Williamsburg North Carolina, Pastor Shaun and I met an elderly couple that helped give me a new perspective about rain. Earlier in the day there was thunder and lightening, the rain was coming down so hard you could hardly look across the street. It was amazing!
In the evening when the team was getting ready to go to bed, I met an elderly lady while waiting in line for a shower. We started talking about where the Tour has traveled to thus far and I learned a little bit about where she had traveled to with her family. When we were finished she said she was going to meet her husband outside so he could walk her back to their RV. When we turned the corner, standing there was Pastor Shaun talking to her husband. They were talking about the storm earlier in the day. Then the man started telling us of his twenty-four year old neighbor that had put a gun to his head and then shot himself. He said it was sad because the young man hadn’t even begun to live his life. He said he laughs when people complain about the rain, but what we don’t realize is that we need the rain to help grow and mature the earth. We need it to help crops and plants grow for food. It’s like life he explained, sometimes we need storms to help us grow and mature. This man, whom I will never see again, gave me a whole new perspective on life’s storms.
-Kristen Judson-