“When the rain came down, I was older than the earth.”

“Sometimes I think: I am older than this tree, older than this bench, older than the rain. And yet. I'm not older than the rain. It's been falling for years and after I go it will keep on falling.”

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”

“Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples,
and older than the Scriptures,
and whether we realize it or not,
they hold more authority.”

“I danced in the morning
When the world was begun,
And I danced in the moon
And the stars and the sun,
And I came down from heaven
And I danced on the earth,
At Bethlehem
I had my birth.”

“Driving through rain with you, / in a sea of rain / I saw only the bridges, their railings, / the passing lanes, / when the earth rose into my eyes / I heard, I heard that I had loved.”

“Red rain is coming down.
Red rain.
Red rain is pouring down,
Pouring down all over me.”

“A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.”

“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”

“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”