Eighteen years ago, when April and I were trying to figure out the perfect name for my new blog the word gracious came to my mind quickly. Did you know that gracious appears in the Bible 33 times? To me, it almost feels like a Godly word, and I have loved it– to my bones– since I was a child.
Years ago, there was a pageant director who had her contestant girls write 5 thank you notes a day for the 30 days they were training with her. She believed that “gratitude and graciousness change you in many ways, even internally and that it actually changes your appearance. The grateful, gracious person becomes even more lovely inside and out.”
So, yes. The word Gracious was perfect.
And the other thing I have loved all my life?
Rain.
Beautiful, refreshing, healing, timely, abundant…
rain.
One might even call it
gracious rain.
And so we did.
