Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain

First we had a 3 week dry spell in April, now we have a 3 week monsoon in July. Which is better? Dry, cracked ground, or floods?
The rain is a time of renewing. Rivers flooded into roads, streets, houses, buildings. Structure is being shaken. People are having to think outside of the box. Communities are rewakened, people adapting to assisting one another out of danger, and with common difficulties. It's time. New life will come after the rains. New infrastructure, new buildings, new pathways and roads, new bridges and a new look to the river banks. It's a time for contemplating that which is important. Are your posessions able to withstand the torrents of water? Is your community able to withstand the crisis together and able to come out of it stronger? Which is more important. The things of this world will rot and pass away, but life will continue, stronger in the Lord.
Are we to be like Job and sit around moaning at his lot, or are we to be like Paul, who gets up, brushes the dust and blood from his cloak and carries on with what he was doing before being punished?
We need to build life together, community in community, help those who need help as much as we can, for there you will find life and satisfaction, otherwise, sit at your window, looking at the rising waters, seeing your jaguar float away, a bit of flotsam in the current and hold onto your precious things so they can be lifted higher than the waters, but stop and think. What do I save first? Which item do I have is more important than another?
I am high and dry and proud, but my neighbour is suffering, drowning, starving, thirsty. What do I say when I see them next, over the fence on the next hot, dry day? Do I see their suffering? Can I have helped? Shared? Whatever little you can do is like a miracle to someone else.