A Rainbow in Winter

As I was driving home from work the other day, I saw a sight I don’t think I’ve seen in all of my years on this planet. Here we were, in the dead of winter, and there was up in the sky, a rainbow.

In the morning, we’d had an ice storm, which had turned over to rain, and now the skies were clearing. Still, I have never associated rainbows with wintertime. Maybe its just me.

Of equal importance, at least to me, is the timing of this rainbow’s appearance. I had been going through a rough patch at work, when it seemed like I took one giant step backwards for every two steps forward. On this particular day, mere hours before I saw this wonderful rainbow, I’d made a couple of breakthroughs. For me, the metaphorical clouds were at least starting to break up at the office.

So out I walked from the office, got in my car and started to pull out, when I saw up in the sky this truly magnificent rainbow. It sliced through the clouds, a harbinger of better weather after a truly nasty ice storm that morning. Call me crazy, but I also interpreted that rainbow as a message to me that sooner or later, the sun will shine again, and that also, I am never alone.

As I’ve written many times before, there was a time in my life that I would’ve just viewed the rainbow as purely that…a rainbow. I would not have thought twice about its timing. The timing of its appearance would have been purely coincidental.

Now, that I’m older and wiser, I know there are very few, if any, coincidences. It is my belief that God communicates with us using the method He believes will work the best for a particular time and place. For me, it was the rainbow shining through the clouds; a message that after all dark time, there is light. For you, it may be something entirely different.

But make no mistake, He does speak with us, He does communicate with us. And He does love us. He created the heavens and the earth. If He wants to send me a rainbow, I think its within His power to do so.

Well, Message Received Big Fella. I appreciate so much you letting me know, symbolically, that life will always have times of light and bliss after darkness and confusion. It truly was a great ending to a meaningful day.

You just have to love seeing rainbows in winter.

-The Minister