Just like there can’t be good without the bad, if there was no rain, there would be no flowers. What makes life beautiful is the journey that we walk during our limited time on this earth. Without struggle and hardship, we wouldn’t develop into the resourceful, capable people that we are.
When it’s raining for days in our world, we can lose sight of what comes after the storm. But what if we just allowed ourselves to fully experience the rain? What if we learned to celebrate the rain and even dance in it?
There is this feeling in the air, this scent of renewal after a rainstorm. When it has been dry outside for a while and we have a heavy rainstorm, we experience a phenomenon called petrichor. Petrichor is the earthy scent that is produced when rain hits the dry soil on the ground, resulting in a distinct earthy, pleasant smell, or what we typically call “the smell of it having rained.” What’s fascinating is that what actually causes the scent in the air is the bacteria that has taken up residency in the soil. When we have periods of no rain, microbes, such as streptomyces, produce spores in the ground. When the rain hits the microbes, the pleasant scent is emitted into the air.
The rain cleans the earth. It provides nourishment and life. And is vital to our existence, just like the rain is in our life.
