It is somehow appropriate that when I arrived at Lourdes, the place with miraculous water that I arrive in a downpour. Then, we walked to a convent, which was not the place where we were to stay. (I failed to make the convent we had reservations at sufficiently clear). We had to backtrack and then following google we made our way up an ill used path, to the back gate of the convent where we were to stay only to find that the gate was locked. Still raining steadily , we backtracked again and finally by long and roundabout way came to the front door of the Petit Convent. After some confusion about the reservation we had a place to stay while we are at Lourdes.
By the time we got into the dry I was soaked to the skin. It turns out the the raingear I brought has lost its effectiveness.
Water cleanses, washes away, purifies, makes us clean, here at Lourdes the water from the grotto has been documented to miraculously heal abut 70 people, from re-fusing a broken femur, to healing tuberculosis, or giving sight to the blind and healing the dumb so they can speak. So I don't mind being soaked if it brings me a deeper understanding of the grace of God which flows through my life
Lourdes, in the rain...
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