Rain

Its so easy to get lost in the shuffle of life, in the movement, in the change, in the future. It's so easy to say you'll do that later or you'll get to it when you can. It's so easy to work till 9 o'clock at night and wonder where the time went, but we must stop and acknowledge the lives we're living. Today I sat in a food court in Seoul, on the 8th floor of a department store in Dongdaemun and as I sat and looked out the window, the rain poured down around me. For the first time in a very long time, I felt like this was such a moment of bliss, a moment where the world stopped and the rain soothed me, brought me back to a better place in my mind. I've been so busy lately, in and out of the country, working all the time and for just a minute, I could stop and sit and watch as the rain, every part of my soul, cleansed all the chaos away.

I reminded me of Portland, looking down at the city below, at the rain washing the city clean. I have so missed this kind of rain, it's not what I get in Hawaii, but real rain, large blue drops of rain. I've missed that since I left Portland and finally today I got it again, at a time when I needed it the most.

And so tonight as I fall asleep, I'll pray for more rain tomorrow because this city is so beautiful in the rain and because the rain makes me feel whole again.