{"id":14741,"date":"2018-10-11T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nearariver.com\/?p=14741"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:23:03","slug":"rainy-days-near-a-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/rainy-days-near-a-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people dislike rainy days but I love them.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"near<\/p>\n

Today is a rainy day here, but the weather is not dragging me down.\u00a0 I love rainy days!<\/p>\n

Why do I love the days that most people do not like?<\/p>\n

First, they remind me of happy childhood days. \u00a0You see, I was a naughty child.\u00a0 When my brother and I walked to school in the rain, I jumped into every puddle.\u00a0 Needless to say, we both went to class drenched from head to toe.\u00a0 But my brother never got angry with me for drenching him.\u00a0 Instead, he just laughed and hugged me as he dropped me off at my class.<\/p>\n

Second, walking in the rain is good for my brain.\u00a0 It is a \u201cmindfulness exercise\u201d that helps me to feel less connected to my troubles and more connected to nature.<\/p>\n

When I walk in the rain, I watch the rain come down with open-hearted curiosity just as I did as a child.\u00a0 I watch droplets turn into streams and puddles.\u00a0 As I watch, I listen to the sounds of the rain\u2014pitter, splash, drip, and gush.<\/p>\n

After the rain dampens my clothing and my clothes in turn dampen my skin, I breathe in deeply and savor the smell of the earthy scent produced by rain falling on dry soil.\u00a0 As I breathe in and out, I release all the tension I have been unconsciously holding inside of me.<\/p>\n

Do rainy days make you feel down?\u00a0 If so, you might want to try thinking about them differently, with mindfulness.<\/p>\n

Remember that the rainy days are just part of nature, just as you yourself are.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Let the\u00a0encouraging words<\/a>\u00a0in these\u00a0near\u00a0a\u00a0river<\/a>\u00a0posts help you<\/h4>\n

soar like an\u00a0eagle<\/a>\u00a0above life\u2019s storms.<\/h4>\n

 <\/p>\n

An interesting new disorder…<\/a><\/h4>\n

Please help me keep my promise!<\/a><\/h4>\n

If only we all had her spirit every day…<\/a><\/h4>\n

Make your future as bright as it can be…<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people dislike rainy days but I love them.\u00a0 Today is a rainy day here, but the weather is not dragging me down.\u00a0 I love rainy days! Why do I love the days that most people do not like? First, Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,137],"tags":[1588,77,1271,1269,17,1328,1334,1270,1329,1337,1714,1332,1321,12,1331,1330,1320,1273,1322,1302,1274,1323,1325,1326,1324,19,1275,1319,1318,716,1327,1336,1335,1268,49,8205,8206,8204,1333,297,1299],"class_list":["post-14741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-live-happy","tag-common-core-eagle-reading-book","tag-bj-rae","tag-books-for-children","tag-books-for-kids","tag-child","tag-child-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-book","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-reading-book","tag-common-core-book","tag-common-core-reading-book","tag-core-reading-book","tag-eagle","tag-eagle-book-for-child","tag-eagle-child-book","tag-eagle-children-book","tag-eagle-childrens-book","tag-eagle-core-reading-book","tag-eagle-kid-book","tag-eagle-kids-book","tag-eagle-reading-book","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-child","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-children","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-kids","tag-encouragement","tag-encouraging","tag-encouraging-childrens-book","tag-encouraging-kids-book","tag-encouraging-words","tag-kid-eagle-reading-book","tag-kid-reading-book","tag-kids-book","tag-kids-books","tag-love","tag-rain","tag-rainy","tag-rainy-days","tag-reading-book","tag-soar-like-an-eagle","tag-words-of-encouragement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14741"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21325,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741\/revisions\/21325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}