Five Minute Friday: Small

I'm laying here listening to the sound of the much needed rain hit our roof as the rest of the house still slumbers. Oh how we need this rain, and how my soul has been longing for the clouds to actually produce some all week.  

Looking out of the window at the vast cloudy sky overhead I feel small. I am reminded at how my children are not really small any longer, and how small in the big picture the argument I had with my husband last night really is. Life is fleeting. Moments are like the small raindrops that are falling outside of my window right now each coming right after the next. Each drop hitting my window and rolling into the next drop, which makes it a new one and another as it continues to gather more along its path. It makes me want to get up and catch each drop into a bowl and save them. It hits those are our small moments in our big life. each small moment rolling down our window, melting into the next moemtn, and they next... They become our bigger picture. So, I will keep laying here and thinking on each small moment in my life and know that they are melting into each other to make up my big moments. Some raindrops stay put and some roll. Each significant. Each with its own uniqueness and memory. 

I lay here soaking up each laugh and giggle. Each argument and tear. Each hug and cuddle. They may seem small, they may seem big... But they are our raindrops. Our small moments falling from the vast sky making up and watering our souls and our stories. They make up who we are and reflect back the eloquent pen of our author. 

How blessed is it that in the small of just listening to it rain God provides a big picture of what even the smallest of moments represent in the bigger picture... So blessed.