The rains are here Madge!
Have you seen that ad on TV where the kids are eating corn cobs with their heads outside the window? As the drops from their juicy corn cobs drop down onto the hot tin roof below, the father runs outside and says to his wife: “the rains are here Madge!” That’s my inspiration for today’s post.
If you live in New Zealand, England, Europe or other places where it rains quite often, it’s probably hard to imagine my excitement this morning when I woke up to the sound of falling rain. It’s a sound I haven’t heard very many times during the past 4 years.
For years now, we would wake up and see bright sunshine and hope for rain as we looked out over our parched landscape. Every day we would pray for rain in the hope of bringing relief to the many desperate farmers who were losing their stock and their livelihoods. Even large old trees have been feeling the strain and many of them have been dying.
The other day we heard about the plight of one farmer in our area who took his sheep to market where he received less for them than they had cost him and he came home and shot himself. He just couldn’t take it any more. So many farmers are desperately in need of rain and desperately in need of a good season for them to be able to survive. My heart goes out to them and I only hope they are receiving some of this wonderful rain too.
The importance of this wonderful rain should not be lost on the people of Sydney either. Often it rains in Sydney, but it has no benefit for the catchment area because most of it runs out to the ocean.
One of the creeks which originates on our property, actually ends up flowing into Sydney’s Warragamba Dam so the more rain we receive, the better it is for Sydney’s water supply. I think of this every time it rains because I used to live in Sydney and we still have a small farm which adjoins the main Warragamba to Sydney pipeline.
It was interesting to talk to some of the people in the street as they walked past our office door this morning. The rain has brought a new air of optimism and hope to the country and people are so very grateful for this wonderful rain. It’s so lovely to see the water filling up the dams and collecting in the paddocks.
Anyway, that’s enough of me prattling on about the rain. I hope you too have something in your life that you can be excited and grateful for. 
Warm Regards,
Hans Jakobi - Australia's Wealth Coach