...this too shall pass...

 “Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth;

without rain, there would be no life.”

~John Updike

We’ve had about three weeks of rainy, dreary days. The sun came out today and just as I was preparing to go walking, the sky fell…a thunderstorm. But hey, we did have some sun!

Just once this week was I able to walk to and from the train station. As I walked through an old section of DC, I was taken by the flowers- a variety of colors of roses from yard to yard, an amazing Scotch broom, and peonies of amazing shades. I was so taken by one rose bush that towered over me at about 8 ft. It had the largest, most perfect off-white turning into yellow blooms. I stood on the sidewalk just gazing into the yard hoping no one was inside staring back at me. I was so mesmerized by the roses that I even failed to take a picture. I was that in the moment.

This morning before the storm, I snapped a few pictures from my garden. It’s been a terribly busy and stressful week. It’s also been an emotionally challenging one. The flowers remind me that after many, many days of rain, beauty returns. We cannot have the beautiful flowers without those beautiful overcast, rainy days. Ebb and flow, remembering that there are two different ways to read, “This too shall pass.”