Feeling leads, thought follows and does the work of translating. You are the person who can say the thing everyone was sensing but could not name, which is a genuinely uncommon skill and a slightly uncomfortable one to have.
It means you process by articulating. Until you have said it — to someone, in writing, out loud in the car — it is not finished. People sometimes mistake that for indecision. It is not; it is how the decision gets made.
Rain is water that has been through the air and comes back usable. That is roughly what you do with difficulty: take the raw version, put it through language, hand it back as something people can hold.