God is a good God, yes He is - woohoo!!

I woke up at 5:30 this morning, 20 minutes before my alarm, unable to go back to sleep. Groan. I get up, devotions, check the weather for the day: 81 degrees and cloudy. That's ok, it means that if the guys on the island are feeling charitable today and want to take us in early, rather than at 7pm, it's cool enough that we can do so.

Then I remember - oh yeah, it's Sunday. It's easy to forget what day it is when you work every day. But it's Sunday.

On Thursday, my boss said that if I wake up on a Saturday morning and it's raining and it looks like it's going to keep raining, than I can skip work rather than go to the island for 12 hours when I'll only have 2 hours of work to do. I figure if that applies to Saturday, then it equally applies to Sunday. So I've been praying for rainy Sundays so I can go to church.

I wake up this morning - no rain. Ohhh man. Well, I'll keep praying for it anyway. Hard. 6:15: no rain. 6:30: no rain. 6:45: no rain, but it's still pretty dark for it being 6:45. 6:50 I step out the front door to put on my sneakers - hey, it's sprinkling! I smile. And pray harder.

We walk down to the boat, it's still sprinkling - not enough that I could justify skipping work yet. "God, please make it rain harder, please!" over and over. We get to the boat dock, still just sprinkling. The guys are standing there talking, and we're just waiting - 5 minutes before the boat leaves.

And then -

it starts to rain harder. Just a little bit harder, not a downpour. And then a little harder. Still not a downpour, but definitely enough to skip work, in my opinion. I can't fight the smile now. I tell one of the guys who isn't talking that it's raining, and so we're not going in today. And we turn around and walk back to the house.

It's still raining now. It wasn't forecast to rain today.

Go God! I'm actually really excited about this. The last time I was this happy, can't-fight-the-smile happy, was when I got to go visit a couple of friends in Philly before one of them moved away. Totally God's doing this morning - He's awesome. Now I can go to church! AND my research assistant is coming with me to church - even better!

So keep praying for rainy Sundays :D!