Rainbow!

This morning, Namie kept on yelling just outside my window, "Rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!" I went to look up the sky for a rainbow, but there's none. I asked her, 'Where's the rainbow?" Kyle answered, "here daddy" He was shooting his water gun towards the sunlight and every time he did,  it created a prism of colors to which Namie shouts, "RAINBOOOOOWWWW!"

When you were a child,
How many times have you stopped and yelled, "RAINBOW!"?
How many wishes have you made?
How many times have you counted the colors of  the bow?

Along the path of growing we lost this sense of awe.
We lost the sense of hope because of our failures
And the failures of the people around us to keep their promises.
And we thought that we could not go back to those times that we could yell again, "Hey, a rainbow!"

But guess what? You can still go out and yell, "RAINBOW!"
All you need is the desire to take full responsibility of your own happiness.
You don't have to wait for the sky to show a rainbow.
You could create one.

Namie and Kyle did not know about promises. Rainbow is not only about promises. Rainbow is about living the 'now' and being happy with what we have, with whom we are with...and that's what we call a colorful life...

 

Father,
Thank You for showing us this
Wonderful gift of nature.
Thank You for the promises You made
Which have made us strong,
In Jesus’ Name.
Amen

photo: crestock.com | Posted by John B. Bejo