It's about Rain, Umbrella and God

One day my friend post a picture on his facebook wall. It was a picture of a girl standing on the street of deserted city during the rain. She covers herself with an umbrella. Nobody there. The color the picture dominated with grey one - overall it was a miserable picture with a quote;

An umbrella cannot stop the rain but it allows us to stand in the rain.

Just like faith in God, it may not remove our trials but it gives us God's strength to overcome them.

Ah, It's about rain, umm an umbrella and ....God?

I just saw it and directly disagree with the statement although I did also see some people push the 'like' button on that posting. Why? It's very simple! I am a Pluviophile.

Everybody believes that rain are metaphors of troubles, trails or a broken hearted. I know I can't blame them because of the general interpretation which were spread and believed for so long by more than half people in the world? Although until now I also can not find the red lines between the rain and the sadness. Hmm.. but wait.. I guess it might be because some scenes in the movies are always using rain as a perfect background to represent a sad feeling of a character and of course to dramatize the story behind it. But for the sake of my body and soul, I’ve learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different. It is like when I saw rain. For me rain is just a simple miracle of nature's cycle and please do not confront this opinion with the meteorology or science's theories.

I love the rain. I love to hear the sounds of the rain falls with some thunder sounds that can make me startled even scream suddenly - I love how it makes my heart jumps and beats faster than before, it's like having an electric shock. I love to see its water droplets - in my windshield or my window(s) house. I love to feel the cold weather in my skin caused by the rain, as we know we are a warm body, our blood flows everyday without our consciousness. But whenever it rains I can feel more and realize that. I love to smell the soil, the grass and and the plants getting wet due to rain. I also love writing while raining, the same as I love how the warm sunlight drops on my face every morning. Rain inspires me.

Back to my friend's facebook wall, my fingers suddenly itch as I must say something about the rain according to my own thought, then I wrote some comment on his wall;

But how If I love to stand in the rain without an umbrella? Is that mean we can overcome the troubles without faith in God?

To shorten the story, he replies;

It’s up to you, you can take any path you like if you like to get cold and wet then you can go through it hahaha..

I still disagree with him and try to think deeper how can I defend my opinion by making the connection between those three words, rain, umbrella and God. I read it once again and just found one key word from his reply; ‘wet’. Suddenly my mind flew away to one of the Bob Marley quotation about the rain;  “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” 

Yes, I feel the rain – I feel the pain, I feel the happiness, I feel easiness, I feel the difficulties and I feel a lot of things in my life. I just feel it and I believe others feel them too. It’s only about the differentiate on how they feel it. Now I don't want to deny and accept the other point of view that rain is identically with troubles and trials, I don’t mind at all. As I believe sometimes we just need to feel it, to feel the pain of our troubles and trials like we feel the other good things.

Why we need to use an umbrella? Why we always to urge ourselves, our mind to see and to believe that God will (directly) help? Why don't we think that God just want to see how much we love our life even at the worst? I saw many people tends to hold on God when troubles and trials comes but forgot Him whenever happiness surrounds. We run and try to find His wisdom, His help and His mercy?

Why don’t we try to feel that life is not always beautiful as we expected, live is up and down, a roller coaster which can make us scream and shout loud because we are afraid whenever they take us in up, down even circle(s) trail – if you can feel the happiness, why can’t you feel the sadness?

It doesn’t mean that I don’t believe in God’s strength but I am just trying to make myself familiar with the nature of life. So then we will not judge God is not fair whenever we can't overcome those troubles or trials. We can’t hope something truly life-altering happened like magical Disney show. Can we? 

Then why trying to avoid rain by using an umbrella if you can dance during the rain?

To be honest this article just comes because I love the rain. Rain moves me to think and to reflect. Nothing else. I hope my comment on his wall will not stop his friends push the ‘like’ button as people stop trying to believe in God.