After the Rain – A Reflection on Family, Faith, and Unity

After the Rain – A Reflection on Family, Faith, and Unity

July 23, 2025

This evening, I sat in the garage watching the sun finally slip beneath the horizon, painting the sky with colors only God could dream up. It had rained earlier. The kind of storm that soaks the ground and makes you pause. But now, everything felt calm, quiet, and new.

I listened as Barbi and Bella laughed in the driveway—playing with the volleyball, the dog chasing after them with her tail wagging like a drumbeat of joy. Their laughter echoed down the sidewalk like a song of gratitude. And I felt it deeply: This is what life is really about.

In that moment, I was overwhelmed—not by stress or burden—but by gratitude. Gratitude for a wife who shines with love and compassion. Gratitude for a daughter who lights up rooms and sidewalks alike. Gratitude for a God who knows how to time storms and sunsets just right.

There’s a kind of beauty you only notice after the rain. When the clouds lift and the earth glistens and the air smells clean again. It’s in those moments I’m reminded that storms are temporary—but love, unity, and faith are lasting.

Sometimes life pours down hard. Sometimes it feels like the rain will never stop. But if you stand together—as a family, as people of faith—you’ll endure. You’ll laugh again. You’ll play in the puddles. You’ll walk up and down the sidewalk knowing you’re not alone.

And if you wait… if you’re patient… the sun will always come back.

I’m thankful tonight for the kind of family that stands firm when it storms and dances when the skies clear. That’s the blessing. That’s the inheritance. That’s the promise of waiting on the Lord.

So tonight, I give thanks. For the rain. For the laughter. For the light. And for the love that ties it all together.