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A song that has meant a lot to me spiritually.
Well that surprises me. Your nick's origin isn't what I thought. Actually, when you first joined I thought your name fit. You had the countenance of a kind of elegant humbleness about you; a polite manner that was affirming and accepting. All that while slaying such dragons of your own at the time. Yet, you stayed nimble kind of. Fluid. Graceful. So, like I said, the name fit. Like a glove. But here's the rain...
At my last job I had to go to Savannah GA to a brand new building where they were having an open house for all the manager suits. I had been involved in setting up the controls for the building systems and they wanted to make sure everything was perfect. I had to wear a tie and everything. I was about 15 minutes away when I got a call. A huge thunderstorm had knocked out power and nothing worked. When I got to the site there was a huge roof leak right above the server room right where all the control modules and routers were. My first thing was to stop the water and cut power and I climbed out on the roof and spread a big tarp, then tried to dry up about a million components, all the while I was being told how close the big wigs were getting.... "they're at the airport and they're about on their way!!". It was back and forth to the roof, to the server room and I was sooo scared of turning the power back on to all the stuff. The rain had slowed to a slow steady sprinkle when I was back on the roof and the pressure to get the lights and HVAC was so immense, I stopped and prayed. The rain's slow sprinkle picked up to a steady wash and I realized my back was now completely soaked and tickling as drops rolled around to my stomach. Drops running off my eyelashes that I had to shake away. When I climbed back down to the server room the leaking had stopped and the equipment stayed dry. One of the managers reset the breakers and I felt like Kevin Bacon in that movie Apollo 13 when I turned on the PC. It lit up, the programming was still in place, the time was fine, and everything fired up like the storm never happened. "By the Grace of God" the manager said and it wasn't 5 minutes later that guests started arriving and except for the wet guy in the server room everything was normal as pie.
"By the Grace of God", said the manager. The free and unmerited favor of God. A grace that dampens at first like rain, then soaks to your bones.
I'm done waxing poetic, btw. As you were....