The Day the Rains Ceased

For, lo, the sun broke through the clouds

And all the air was bright;

The promise of forgiveness filled

Their damp, beleaguered sight.

They watched the clouds, wrung dry of rain,

Dissolving in mid flight

And praised the lord, not for rain’s cease,

But for the growing light.

Genesis 8:

2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.