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Because right now I am sharing the house with my little sweet baby grandson Zion, I like to sleep with a sound machine App. on my Iphone.  If you aren’t sure why I do that, well, then you have forgotten what babies do in the middle of the night.   And remember, I am the grandma, not the mommy or daddy.  So, I reserve the right to sleep with a beautiful  rain falling App. on my phone if I choose to.  It really is lovely.

This morning, I was waking up, way too early for my taste, 5 a.m, and especially early since I didn’t fall to sleep until 2 a.m.  So, I layed there listening to my phone App, and trying to go back to sleep.  I was listening to rain falling from the phone.  Then, something seemed LOUDER than the rain on my phone, and it got louder.  Then, all of a sudden, there was lightning, and thunder.  I turned my rain OFF, and realized that I was missing out on the real deal that was going on outside.  It was the sound of real, authentic, not made up rain from a silly ole phone.  There was a whole beautiful orchestra going on around me and I almost missed it because I was trying to soothe myself with something else.

There was no way I was gonna go back to sleep now. I was totally loving the sound of the rain.  And besides, by now, my brain has kicked in, and I had no choice but to see the metaphor in all this.

Its so easy for us to find ways to soothe ourselves, especially during difficult times.  We spend so much time distracting ourselves from all the “bad stuff” around us, that I think we so often miss out on the “good stuff”. I know I do.  I can so easily get caught up in other stuff so as to avoid what is actually  going on around me.

Listening to the rain outside was such a pleasant reminder to me, that there’s some really beautiful music playing out there that I am missing.

I really want to live my life in a more present mind.  I want to be Awake.  I think the only way I can authentically do this, is for me to identify the things I do to avoid this state.  I really don’t want to miss out on the music this year.  I’m thinking you might be relating to all this.  Yeah, I knew you were.  We all struggle with it.

Turn of the fake rain, and ENJOY the REAL DEAL.

Shalom.