with even another one towards the end of the week. The good part of this past weather evens has been the rain. Boy, did we need rain and as my grandfather taught me as a young boy, "it was a million dollar rain". When I ask him what that meant, he said, it is gentle and a good ground soaking rain. It would be years later that I realized that him being Irish, he used the Irish manners for family. He had been referring to the Irish Blessing rather than the St. Patrick's Day Wish for his family and peers.
A St. Patrick's Day Wish for You
May your life be long,
May your heart be true,
May your path be clear
and your skies be blue.
May your soul be happy
and you know deep joy,
May your dreams take flight.
The different is what he was using to answer my question was this:
An Irish Blessing
May the road
rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields and,
until we meet again
may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
In his context, he considered a soft rain that rained all day and into the night as a "million dollar rain, one that soaked the ground but was not washing as a run off or flood, or frankly, a blessing from God until he could get back into the fields again as now, his crops would continue to grow to harvest. God, had sent a million dollar rain.
