Soaking in his love.

One of my favorite songs is Always by Hillsong United. In it there is a line that says (in speaking to God), "Can I feel you in the rain?" As I listened to this song this morning, instantly an image came to mind from six years ago in July.
On that day in Paris, the rain started coming down in the middle of the afternoon. It was one of those storms where the sky suddenly is dark and the water is falling around you so hard and so fast that you can't see more than a few feet ahead. I got really excited about the downpour, and went running down the street, getting more and more soaked with each step. It was absolutely marvelous! However, after running about a block I stopped. It was as though God was saying to me in an audible voice in that moment, "I am showering down my love on you," letting me get drenched in it. I looked up in the sky with the rain running down my face and was amazed and awed.
I've never forgotten that moment. Even with the dark seasons that were to face me ahead, the message that God gave to me that day helped me to walk forward knowing that His love was there to guide me even when I felt completely lost and alone.
We can experience him in all of life, in the sunshine, in the rain, in the darkness, in the light. We can never go where He cannot find us. He is with us always, showering down his love in an outpouring of his heart and the greatness of who He is.


This is a copy of the lyrics to the song that was mentioned at the beginning:

Always
Hillsong United

Did You rise the sun for me?
Or paint a million stars that I might
Know Your majesty?
Is Your voice upon the wind?
Is everything I've known marked
With my maker's fingerprints?

Breathe on me
Let me see Your face
Ever I will seek You

Chorus:
'Cause all You are, is all I want, always
Draw me close in Your arms
Oh God, I wanna be with You

Can I feel You in the rain?
Abandon all I am to have You
Capture me again
Let the earth resound with praise
Can You hear as all creation lives
To glorify one name?