The good

 I love that wry optimism which sees rain as 'liquid sunshine'. We've needed it as 'February fill-dyke' has extended into early March. Well, the water authority will be pleased, even if the rest of us have to keep on smiling, and with wry optimism remind ourselves it's really liquid sunshine. I can say that here where there have been few floods, but maybe it doesn't hold elsewhere.

However, there's something good and pure about letting the wryness go, and as it were, standing in the truth of rain being another form of sunshine. Many in this cynical and world-weary age would call it foolishness, naivete, cracked, but from a faith viewpoint, maybe it asserts powerfully that the sun only shines, as God only loves. There are clouds, but the sun keeps on shining, even if we don't see it. That all that comes to us can be turned to good, for those who would see it as such. 

There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

sang Leonard Cohen, in 'Anthem'. Do we see the crack, or welcome the light?