Art in Exile: April Showers

Art in Exile: a blog series focused on introducing beauty into the social media stream during a season of self-quarantine, social distancing, and a global pandemic.

It’s April. Today’s Art in Exile is an ode to April Showers. I’m a person who often feels like the weather, so for the sake of beauty and truth, I thought I’d join art featuring rain with Scripture about rain.

“Like clouds and wind without rain
    is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.”

Proverbs 25:14

“He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.” Deut 11:14. 

“Shower, O heavens, from above,
    and let the clouds rain down righteousness;
let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit;
    let the earth cause them both to sprout…”

Isaiah 45:8

“Ask rain from the Lord
    in the season of the spring rain…
    and he will give them showers of rain,
    to everyone the vegetation in the field.”

 Zechariah 10:1

“For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.” Hebrews 6:7

“He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,
    who makes lightnings for the rain
    and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.”

Psalm 135:7 

“Your Father who is in heaven… makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” Matthew 5:45

That’s it for today’s rainy Art in Exile. I leave you with this amazing work from JMW Turner.