Miraculous Rain

According to the internet, Albert Einstein once said "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Case in point, it's going to rain tomorrow. Now, that could be just a meteorological happenstance. It could be something that was just going to happen anyway. It may even be something the meteorologists had predicted since well before we knew it was going to be important. Or it could be a miracle, an answer to prayers that thousands of Californians have been saying over the last week or so.

California is currently experiencing a large and deadly wildfire, the deadliest on record, if I'm not mistaken. This fire is so big that the smoke from it has caused severe air quality issues all over the state, including here in Sacramento. We wanted to pray for wind to dissipate the smoke, but we knew that the wind would fan the flame and make it even more dangerous and harder to fight. So instead, we prayed for rain, rain that will help clear the air and put out the fire. And it looks like we're going to get it.

Over the next few days, we're set to receive a great deal of rain, hopefully enough to weaken or maybe even extinguish the fire. One can only hope and pray, but it seems to me that prayers are sometimes answered. It's encouraging to feel like God cares about us enough that, despite our many flaws, He sees fit to help us solve our problems. He gives us His sorely needed guidance (which we often ignore), and He even occasionally grants us miracles, even though we don't deserve them. God is kind and merciful, and I fully believe that He was responsible for sending us the rain we are, thankfully, about to receive.