Ozone Action Day; Sweaty Rain or God's Little Sister

It's Grand Rapids; Humid and Sticky. The way it only gets if you're surrounded by water on three sides. Lake-Effect. I'm driving home in my car when my nose is hit, for the first time this season, by the sweat-smell of rain vapor as it rises off the asphalt. It's distinctly the smell of Michigan summer. The way rain smells as it's burned when it hits the hot pavement.

They say in Michigan, "if you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes." This is less of a joke and more of a reality. On Father's day, it rained at the golf course my dad and brother were playing on - which is 1/2 mile away from my parent's house. It didn't just rain, it poured. Buckets. The weather at my parents house, (you can actually see the golf course from their house) sunshine and not one drop of rain. Oh sure, you could hear the thunder, but that's about it. That gives a whole new perspective on "isolated showers."

This is a clear example of God having a sense of humor. Of all the places to rain...he chooses the GOLF COURSE. Not my parent's lawn, which could actually use the rain, no; he chooses to rain on all the father's and their kids. As if God had just washed his hands and instead of wiping them on a towel he flicks the water at his sister to get her glasses all spotty. God has that kind of a sense of humor.