Sunshower Saturday

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...for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 

-2 Corinthians 6:14-16

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At this point, as the summer hell month of August drags on here in drought-stricken Texas, we'll pretty much take rain however we can get it. We'll take it in the daylight, or in the dark of night, or falling from skies both cloudy and bright! PBird informs us that the rain is coming, but then she's looking at it through Pacific NW eyes, so we shall see.

As we were reminded yesterday (hat tip Farnsworth), there is an old saying used to describe when it's raining while the sun is shining: "The devil is beating his wife again." That's the one we grew up hearing, but there are many variations in folklore around the world used to describe the sunshower phenomenon.

This seems an apt description, since the dual-natured devil is both light-bringer and prince of darkness, evil and worldly good, rolled into one. It also serves as a subtle reminder and lesson for us onlookers about the pointlessness of trying to combine and balance opposites. The results are always brief and lackluster and heaven is always just out of reach. 

This subject also raised the question: Who is the devil's wife? Well, in ancient Jewish folklore, Lilith is said to be the name of Lucifer's wife. There are a couple of references to her in the Scriptures.

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The tziyyim (martens) shall also encounter iyyim (wild cats), and a sa’ir (wild goat) calls to its companion, and lilit (night creature) dwells there and finds for itself a mano’ach (place of rest). 

-Yeshayah 34:14 (Orthodox Jewish Bible)

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. 

-Proverbs 2:18-21

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It may sound soothing, but this is NOT the way!!

I want to know

Have you ever seen the rain

Comin' down on a sunny day?

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