My Rainbow - A Promise

On Saturday, we drove to Kamloops, to take the boys Christmas shopping. Our plan was to take them to a hotel with a waterslide and let them have some fun. We try to do this every year. It is an inexpensive 'short' holiday. We usually only do a night or two but pick the hotel with the waterslide and nice breakfast. Of course, with a family our size we end up with two rooms, which the boys love as it means they get their space.

On the way there, it was a beautiful crisp sunny winter day. Cold! But not a drop of moisture in the air.

All of a sudden, while we are driving through our town, I look up and see a rainbow. Actually it was a piece of a rainbow.


I said, "Do you see that rainbow?"

Everyone said, "No."

"Right there! In front of us. Can't you see the rainbow?"

I could hear them shifting in the backseats to see if they could see the rainbow, and one by one, they all said, "No," again!!

"What do you mean you can't see it! Ray, can't you see it?" In desperation (was I seeing visions? *grin*) I asked my hubby.

"Nope."

What was with these people. I peered more closely. Squinted my eyes. As I looked at it it seemed to fade in and out. Maybe they were right. Maybe it wasn't there and I was imagining it. I mean, after all, it wasn't raining! And it wasn't even a whole rainbow. Just a slice hanging down in front of me like a vertical dash.

But then I stubbornly knew I wasn't imagining it!! I looked at my hubby and beamed. "Well! If you all can't see it, then maybe it's just for me!"

He looked at me with that "isn't she cute, when she gets excited" look on his face and grinned and said, "Okay."

Then I said, "Doesn't it have to rain to have a rainbow?! Look it's not even raining! How can we have a rainbow and not even a normal one, when there is no rain?!!"

Ray continued to grin at me like I was losing screws one by one. He said, "Oh it's just a change in the atmosphere. It's just a ring around the sun."

It was my turn to look at him like he was losing it. There was no ring around the sun!!! It wasn't *near* the sun and it wasn't a ring. It was simply a 'dash' that had no other parts. Just what we could see in front of us.

So I bugged him and said, "Are you serious? You sound like the scientists that can't see what is right in front of their faces! That's a rainbow! Man, people miss out on all the miracles in life because they see a practical reason for it, instead of seeing it for what it is!"

A rainbow is a sign of God's promise. God uses the rainbow to remind us of His promise not to flood the earth again.

When I saw that rainbow I was so excited because I knew it was weird to see a rainbow on a sunny rainfree day. I think this was a reminder to me that He is going to fulfill His promise to us to be able to adopt!"

Suddenly, after I had come to this realization, one of the kids said, "Oh, I see it!" One by one everyone saw it and it and I knew I wasn't delusional! *grin* And my sweet, considerate hubby pulled over to the edge of the road a few times so I could get the best picture of *my* rainbow.




Those that know me well, know why this particular rainbow, on this particular Saturday, was so important to me as a sign of a dream coming true.