Fire and Rain ( . . . and Snow!) | Praise Podcast

A timely re-post while many of us hunker down during the Big Snowstorm flowing across the nation! Be warm, safe, and blessed!

https://momo634.com/p/fire-rain-snow

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00:00:02 --> 00:00:02 Hello,

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00:00:09 --> 00:00:10 motivation,

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00:00:19 --> 00:00:24 Momo 634, motivational moments just for today.

00:00:34 --> 00:00:36 In my birth city of San Francisco,

00:00:37 --> 00:00:41 it seemed like the old maxim attributed to Mark Twain was true.

00:00:42 --> 00:00:47 The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

00:00:48 --> 00:00:49 Where I live now,

00:00:49 --> 00:00:50 we get four seasons,

00:00:51 --> 00:00:51 often,

00:00:52 --> 00:00:53 as the joke goes,

00:00:53 --> 00:00:54 in one afternoon.

00:00:55 --> 00:00:59 This comes after the triple-digit heat over most of the summer

00:00:59 --> 00:01:00 regular listeners

00:01:00 --> 00:01:03 heard me discuss in several episodes.

00:01:04 --> 00:01:05 Literally,

00:01:05 --> 00:01:07 as I was looking out of the window,

00:01:08 --> 00:01:11 rain came pouring down in buckets.

00:01:12 --> 00:01:14 Less than five minutes later,

00:01:14 --> 00:01:15 the sun came out,

00:01:16 --> 00:01:17 brightly shining,

00:01:18 --> 00:01:21 only to be obscured by another rain cloud.

00:01:22 --> 00:01:25 And now we are prepping for a big freeze.

00:01:26 --> 00:01:29 But isn't that a great metaphor for life also?

00:01:30 --> 00:01:34 It's like a huge storm will come out of nowhere,

00:01:34 --> 00:01:36 completely blindsiding us.

00:01:37 --> 00:01:42 Then we'll experience a sweet moment or something great happens.

00:01:43 --> 00:01:48 Like in the episode Sun and Rain, we have to take the good with the bad.

00:01:48 --> 00:01:52 And things can seem to change on a dime and you're left

00:01:52 --> 00:01:54 wondering if you need an

00:01:54 --> 00:01:56 umbrella to go with your flip-flops.

00:01:57 --> 00:02:02 Many of us carry an umbrella or jacket in our cars to be ready

00:02:02 --> 00:02:03 for these sudden

00:02:03 --> 00:02:04 shifts in the weather.

00:02:05 --> 00:02:06 Likewise,

00:02:06 --> 00:02:10 this is why I stress the importance of having your mental

00:02:10 --> 00:02:11 health toolkit stocked

00:02:12 --> 00:02:14 and ready to go at all times.

00:02:15 --> 00:02:19 I'll link the post I did on creating a toolkit on the Substack

00:02:19 --> 00:02:20 page with this

00:02:20 --> 00:02:20 episode.

00:02:22 --> 00:02:24 Our episode title comes from the James Taylor song.

00:02:25 --> 00:02:26 In it,

00:02:26 --> 00:02:28 he writes of the death of a friend,

00:02:29 --> 00:02:31 his own struggles with mental health,

00:02:31 --> 00:02:35 with some of the lyrics ripped from the pages of a hospital stay,

00:02:36 --> 00:02:39 and it also touches on some of the troubles that came with his fame.

00:02:41 --> 00:02:46 None of us are immune to the seasonal changes in the weather or in life.

00:02:47 --> 00:02:49 Isaiah 55,

00:02:49 --> 00:02:50 10 and 11 says,

00:02:51 --> 00:02:55 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return

00:02:56 --> 00:02:57 without watering the

00:02:57 --> 00:02:57 earth,

00:02:57 --> 00:03:03 making it bud and sprout and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

00:03:04 --> 00:03:09 so my word that proceeds from my mouth will not return to me empty,

00:03:09 --> 00:03:14 but will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.

00:03:15 --> 00:03:15 So,

00:03:16 --> 00:03:19 just like the many swift changes in our lives,

00:03:19 --> 00:03:23 many of them are intended to accomplish God's will for our lives.

00:03:25 --> 00:03:26 Our meme for today says,

00:03:27 --> 00:03:31 Many of the changes we experience in life are brushstrokes on

00:03:31 --> 00:03:32 the canvas of our

00:03:32 --> 00:03:35 lives leading to God's finished masterpiece.

00:03:37 --> 00:03:41 Rely on God and grab some items from your toolkit as you wait

00:03:41 --> 00:03:43 for His perfect will to be done.

00:03:46 --> 00:03:47 Thanks for listening.

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