DID YOU SMELL that? No, I don’t mean whatever your “that” might be. I’m writing about the aroma of summer rain that blessed us a while back.

There’s a technical term for that fragrance and it’s called “petrichor.”

I will let you look up the Greek derivation of the word on your own, but, like the Shakespeare quote from Romeo and Juliet, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

The rain was welcomed by most of us. Dust was washed. Pollen doused. Crinkled leaves relaxed and fire danger was slightly lessened.

We were graced with its brief presence. What a natural, priceless treasure for the senses.

I love metaphors and I think of the pleasant earthy aroma of petrichor as the kind of aroma God’s grace would have.

“Grace” is that attribute of God that, as humanly frail and prone t

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