But his wife, Michal, couldn’t bare to see his joy and the community falling in love with him. A literal parade of celebration and joy and dance. I think two stories from the Bible speak to this ‘raining on one’s parade.’įor King David, it was a parade. No celebration at the germination of a creative seed within you. Wanting you to feel small so they can feel big. Laughing and mocking at something you consider important.īelittling the big things happening in you. The joy of a parade is washed away under a downpour of bitterly cold rain.Īnd it happens probably more than we realize. When you are celebrating and having a great time, someone comes and brings bad news. It’s an interesting little idiom to ‘Rain on one’s parade.’ Basically, it means to spoil someone’s pleasure. Depression, a poverty of spirit, and despair slowly began to suffocate the God breath out of them. Something began to die and shrivel up within them. So there was ambivalence to their deepest gift. They had the breath of a creative God within them, and they wanted to share their own creative expression with those dearest to them, but it was routinely dismissed as nothing. It wasn’t that they wanted approval, but more so, they wanted to share the joy they found in their creativity. Sometimes an indifference, a bored ‘Whatever.’ Any attempt at doing something special, creative, or different was criticized and smashed with harsh words.
DESTROY WINDMILL RAIN ON YOUR PARADE HOW TO
Some people seem to like to rain on your parade, but we can learn how to hoist an umbrella and continue on.Īnything my friend did was negated.
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