My Summer Shower

Photo by Angy Fotografie

The beach was wonderfully refreshing and teasingly brief.  Like a summer shower that you have spent the day searching the sky for - looking forward to the drip droplets that will tickle the earth and cool the air.  A momentary respite from the energy sucking heat. 

And then it comes and is every bit as glorious as you thought it would be - all heavy with rain scent and trickling refreshment and calming pitter patter.  One moment - maybe two - and nature takes one last, deep gulp from the clouds and sends them on there way with a smack of the lips and a loud, satisfied "Ahhhh..." 

The sun returns to heat it all up again - sometimes to a hotter heat than before the drenching invigoration - and it's tempting to let the misery of the hotter heat outweigh the brief splendor of the drenching invigoration.

But not me.  I will choose to let the cool, rejuvenating - alebeit fleeting - togetherness of family be a separate entity - so that it stands alone, lovely and revitalizing, apart from the increasing pressure-heat of my life right now. 

And I will look to my Soul Soaker for necessary, intermittent cool offs amidst this draining hotness.