Rainbows

I was trying to think of a name for my blog, and for some reason I started thinking about rainbows.

Rainbows were one of my favorite things to draw when I was a kid. It's a simple thing to make, and when all of the colors come together it looks really bright and cheerful. From the outside to the inside, I would color with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple in that order.... every time. I've always had a fascination with colors and what emotions they evoke within us. For instance, my favorite color - blue - stimulates us mentally and acts as a calmer. Since my brain is always ticking (often times more than it should), it makes sense that blue is my favorite color.

But anyway, back to rainbows. Only a few sentences into my first blog post, and I'm already getting way off track.

Rainbows symbolize so many things. They symbolize cheerfulness. They symbolize diversity. They symbolize beauty after a storm. That last one in particular is really striking to me. Isn't it odd that one of life's coolest visual masterpieces comes in the aftermath of dark and drenching weather? Mind you, I love a good summer rain; I love the pattering of rain against the windows, or the feeling of stepping outside and letting the falling water consume me. But there are some storms that are downright nasty to live through. You know, the ones with the pounding winds, the cracks of thunder across the sky, and the bolts of lightning that look like a light show from inside the window.

Yet after all of that... a rainbow pops out.

Genesis 9:13 - "I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth."

We're all going to go through tough times. We're all going to have those periods in our life where nothing seems to go our way. We may go hours, days, weeks, months, or even years stuck in a rut that we feel we'll never get out of. But we always have the opportunity to see that rainbow at the end of a storm. It may be a brief rainbow, or it may be one that covers our skies for a long time, but it's there. We just have to press through the hard times to see it. God will provide us with that rainbow, just like He provided Noah with one to signal the end of the flood.