This Is Not A Rain Scene In A Hollywood Movie

So I've been sitting at my window for the past ten minutes, watching the rain drops glide down the glass in little streams. The thunder rolls and the gray clouds (minus the silver lining) stretch across the horizon until they seem to go on forever.

This kinda of day, in a typical movie, would happen when something devastating occurs. For Robin Hood, the entire town of Nottingham is now in jail with no hopes of escape. If the movie is Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett just rejected Mr. Darcy. In The Princess Diaries, Mia's car just broke down and it looks like she won't become the Genovian princess after all.

One movie, however, has a dreary rain scene that's not so dreary. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the rain begins minutes before Lucy finds the wardrobe that leads them to Narnia. It starts minutes before she discovers the most wonderful thing she could ever find. Not exactly a typical movie rain scene.

So while I was sitting at my window three paragraphs ago, I was thinking what a lovely day it would be to find that wardrobe and visit Aslan and the Kings and Queens of Narnia. And that got me to start thinking, why is it raining during one of the best scenes in the entire movie?

Well, for starters, the rain keeps them indoors, so they play hide and seek, so Lucy is looking for a hiding place, where she discovers the wardrobe. So the rain draws her to Narnia.

That's similar to real life, isn't it?

The song "Blessings" by Laura Story has these lines:
What if Your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it take to know You're near?
What if my greatest disappointments or the aching of this life
Is a revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?


So maybe all Hollywood has got it all backwards (it wouldn't be the first time).

See, the rain brings Lucy to discover Narnia. In real life (sigh, they're not the same), God uses circumstances that seem like Hollywood rain scenes to draw us closer to Him or remind us that He's there. And in turn, it makes us long for Him and heaven.

See why I love these rainy days?

Soak it all in. It's worth it. :)
KatieQue