How can it be August already? Like me, I am sure you are all trying to make the most of the summer while you can before the kids go back to school, before the weather changes and we say farewell to summer sunning, sailing, swimming, and vacationing. It’s just the way it is. The sun rises and sets, the earth turns, new days keep rolling around and the days and years tick away. Life is motion. It just keeps going on and on.

A week or so ago we had quite the storm front pass through. It was late afternoon and Ted and I were at home in our apartment. Thunder rumbled and the rain came down in fierce torrents. It was loud! When the rain finally slowed to a misty sprinkle, I noticed a dark sky in the east with the sun blazing from the west. Perfect rainbow conditions! If you know me or read my blogs, you know I am obsessed with rainbows! I kept getting up and looking out the window, anticipating that colored bow in the sky. Ted and I were watching something on the TV (I can’t remember what) but I was restless and could not sit still. I KNEW that rainbow was going to appear.

Sure enough! …

Oh my I was giddy! I was like, “Ted! Look look! I told you there would be a rainbow!” And so rainbow sightings always take me back to Noah and the rainbow God shared with him. When God made his covenant with Noah and all mankind to not destroy man and beasts with a flood ever again, He needed a ‘sign’ and the rainbow appeared. There are no other verses in Genesis that talk about rainbows before this. I am sure there was the ability through creation and optics and light rays to have a rainbow happen, but I bet God was like, “ohhh I don’t want to do THAT (cause a flood) ever again and I need to show them that I really mean it …. so now what can I do? Hmmm …. if I bend some light waves …. oh oh oh …. this is cool! I can project this big bow of color across the sky. How cool is that!”

It made me think!

God is faithful. God is true to His promises. He is always there. And as we roll through life, through seasons and events and years, the one steadfast and stable thing we Christians have is our Lord. When the storms hit – Hold on to His hand and look for the rainbow!

And how fantastic is it that the miracle of a rainbow – that God projected in the sky for Noah – is still a miracle that God shares with us over 2,000 years later!

Have a blessed day!

just Laurel