QUESTION OF THE DAY #31: What does a rainbow make you think of?

A rainbow is amazing.  If the sun is shining at about a 40-42 degree angle right behind you and there is a rain shower directly in front of you, you have a good chance of seeing one.  How it happens is that as light enters the droplets of water all of the different colors of light change speed and direction at slightly different rates.  This is called refraction.  The light is then reflected back, and as it leaves the droplets of water, it is refracted again!  The water droplets act like a prism and a mirror!

I don't always think about that, though.  Quite simply and honestly, rainbows remind me of when I've seen them before: in the clear, open spaces of Kansas, on the road to my grandparents' house, camping, and even once as I even drove right past the end of a rainbow near a lake up north in Wisconsin.  (Lakes can do interesting things to rainbows!)

The Bible talks about the rainbow after the flood.  It was a symbol of hope and of God's love and mercy.  Never again would the world be destroyed by the kind of flood that took place in Genesis, when God spared Noah and his family.  

That is a powerful message.  I think of it as being connected to the very first thing God created, light itself.  We normally can't pick out all the different colors.  Yet, in a rainbow we can see them!  We are given a glimpse inside the mystery of light.  I am reminded by these things that life itself is a mystery and a wonder, and that there is always hope... especially in Jesus and His love which is freely given to us.  (Just think, a rainbow is free!)

"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him, these things God has revealed to us..." (1 Corinthians 2:9-10)