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Celebrating Everyday Spirituality

Delighting in Rain

Visitors from California to Toledo, Ohio, are amazed at all the green. Back home they are paid not to have a lawn. rainThe Californians were thrilled to learn that it would rain during their stay, for rain had not splashed on their faces in months. While we Ohioans bemoan “rain on our picnic,” the visitors from the West felt that the rain made for a great vacation. As Pope Francis wrote, “Rather than a problem to be solved, the world is a joyful mystery to be contemplated with gladness and praise.”

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  1. I love that thought….not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be grateful for and praise God.

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