Complaining About The Weather Is A Sin

Today’s reading: Psalm 104:10-17

I think I’m going to memorize today’s reading and launch into it every time I hear someone complain about the weather.

“From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work. You cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for people to use, to bring forth food from the earth,” (Verses 13-14)

The earth may be satisfied, but it seems people rarely are. This year even I almost got caught up in all the fuss and worry over “the drought” that seems to always plague Corpus Christi.

But today I am in the middle of my (almost) annual chuckle. Rain has been giving my plans fits  for at least a week and the forecasters say more may be coming today. It always rains during Buc Days, doesn’t it? Ha.

Oh, I know, I know.  I’ve been hearing all the groaning at the local coffee shops, too. All of this recent rain has basically just messed up our city’s festival. It has almost entirely missed the lakes from which we draw our water, so the drought is still on.

And this delightfully chilly morning we’re experiencing this May 3 is, of course,  just a fluke. 105 degree days are just a couple of weeks away, for sure.

I just don’t see the point in grumbling.  God’s weather is God’s weather. It’s always good. Even when we’re tempted to think it isn’t.

I haven’t voiced this next opinion publicly before because it will probably won’t win me any fans in a place where weather-griping is the local past time.   But today’s reading gives me courage. So here goes:

Complaining about the weather is a sin.

There. I’ve said it. Now I’m off to enjoy another beautiful day in God’s world.  (I may even go play some tennis! Well, if I can find a partner who will play with me in all this wind.)

Thanks be to God for all the rain we’ve been having lately — and for the drought too. May I always remember that His weather is always  perfect.

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