Let it Rain!

So yesterday as I was running/jogging/walking/crawling to where I started, I wrote this post in my head.  I started thinking about the clouds/rain and how they affect your day, your preception, and your outcome.  You know the sayings-
-When someone rains on your parade.
-Clouding my thoughts.

This past week has been very challenging more than others but the factor has been the clouds/rain.  It has been raining like crazy here in Houston.  But we all know Houston is huge, so it may be raining in one place and in another not.  Saturday we had a busy schedule with 2 commitments.  When we got ready to go, we looked outside and it was dark, and thunderstorming.  We still got in the truck and drove to our 1st commitment.  When we arrived there, there was no rain.  Pretty, white fluffy clouds above us.  I told my husband if we would have cancelled, they might have thought not so nice things of us.  The day before yesterday, I had a commitment across town and again, the rain came.  I really do not like driving in the rain.  But I still decided to go, and guess what, no rain.  It did not rain to and from, at all.  Yesterday, as I got ready to go change into my workout clothes it started raining at work.  Our co-workers joked about the ones that were going to go run in the rain.  We left out the parking lot and went across the street to the park.  The clouds passed and then no rain.  The sun was out and it was beaming down on us.  The only traces of water, were the puddles on the ground and the sweat falling off of me.

So as I was trying to run, I started gazing at the sky.  I started thinking how clouds/rain can make us change our plans.  Sometimes we are just waiting for one thing to happen so we could change our minds. 

Are you having a cloudy day?  Are things raining down on you? 

What if when you step outside, the rains stops.  You will never know unless you take that next step.  I am no longer talking about real rain, I'm talking about life.  Life comes down on us and it sometimes stops all we do.  We cannot see past the dark, clouds (hard times), through the rain (problems), and into the rainbow (your next step).  I was stuck.  It was raining, pouring down on me, and yesterday, I let it all go!  Those clouds are no longer stopping me.  Rain or Shine, I'm in.