Season Of Rain

Josh Garrels builds this song around a paradox: praise that rises precisely when everything else has collapsed. The repeated call to praise the Lord "when it's all gone wrong" and even when hope itself has vanished is anchored by a love that outlasts every fading thing. Waves on the ocean become the central image — singing old songs, breaking beyond, their sound so faint that only the patient can hear it. That quietness carries through the verses, where the singer describes a tide formed from every child's tears and a moment of healing in which time stands still. There is honest doubt here too: the admission of questioning whether any of it was real, followed by the felt confirmation of an opened heart. Small, ordinary images follow — a feather in the wind, fire in the brush, a hush of the heart stored up where no system of measurement applies. The song closes by weighing what comes from above against what can never be sustained, and names the season of rain as labor pain whose end is joy. It is a song about endurance, discernment, and a love that keeps shining after everything else has gone.