Rainbow Connection

Rainbow Connection

Why are there so many songs about rainbows?
And what's on the other side
Rainbows are visions but only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
                                          Kenny Loggins

I’ve enjoyed Loggins’ song sung by Kermit the Frog.  Not much too it, I always thought, until I went to a wedding the other day.  We gathered in a vineyard—what a wonderful symbol of God’s creation!  What a view, the future beckoned for the bride and groom.  The only hitch? We had a torrential downpour and a tornado in the neighboring city.  The clouds were still foreboding.  They rose up over the mountain range as if to dump its next wave on us. 

The ceremony did more than go on.  Not a drop fell.  Grapes glistened with rain.  As we walked back for the reception—you guessed it—what an incredible rainbow crossed the sky!  My goodness—it began with a broad band of mixed, almost pastel colors.  It grew into dark waves of primary colors as the sky darkened for night. 

The guests declared God’s special blessing on the couple.  Another Noah’s Ark story—and trust me—we had sailed out of a deluge that day.  I had another take from Psalm 144:

Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down.

The sky had literally opened up for us and we saw it in a whole new light.  Rather than some illusion, the rainbow showed us that the light and water gave us a whole new vision.  Certainly everyone saw that couple in a new vision, a whole new reality of their lives joined as one stepped out of the day colored in a whole new light.  

Maybe the rainbow connection is not found at the end of the rainbow.  Maybe it’s a glimpse of heaven.  Fresh eyes on tired lives – celebrated in a bride and groom.