Day Ten

I'm listening to the rain fall on my tin roof.  It's the same rain that has been falling since about 10:30 this morning.  It's very similar to the rain that fell yesterday, and the day before, and the day before...  Yes, it's the rainy season.  To top it off, there's a hurricane nearby.  It's not forecasted to hit us directly, they never seem to be, and yet we will be subjected to more than enough rain and possibly some pretty high wind.  All of that means there's a greater chance of mudslides and such, so travel is recommended only for those who have the brains to stay out of trouble.  It's not restricted, but most sane people are staying home.

I must be Canadian.  Even when I'm not in Canada, the weather plays a major part of my daily decisions.  If you had told me two years ago that I would survive a month, even three months, where it rains every day, I would have laughed at you.  Now?  I've done it.  Last year was the rainiest season on record (I didn't ask who kept the record - a radio personality may have made it up) and September of this year was supposedly the driest September on record.  I must say that October is making up for that in a big way.

Now I could complain about getting wet every day; about how my shoes aren't drying properly; about how my umbrella shows signs of growing mold because it doesn't get a chance to dry.  I could whine about not being able to dry things outside, or about how much it sucks to wait for the bus or taxi in the rain.  I could do all of these things, but I won't.

Why not?

Because I live in a country where neon green really does exist in nature; where there is more biodiversity that almost anywhere else in the world.  Because the temperature at home this morning was 2* Celsius, and here, even with the rain, I'm pretty sure we saw 20* Celsius.  Because, though it may seem doubtful in the middle of a tropical rainstorm, God has promised that He will never destroy the world by flood again.  He might take little bits of property that shouldn't have been built on a landslide-prone piece of land, but that's another story. God loves us and the earth He created so much that he gives us and nature what we need.  He is a generous God.  It's us humans who complain and try to manipulate things to fit our own agendas.

I wonder if the Garden of Eden had neon green in it?  I bet it did.