I can see clearly now the rain is gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way!
Here is the rainbow I have been praying for.
It’s going to be a bright, bright, bright, bright sunshiny day! – Johnny Nash
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. – 2 Corinthians 4:6
Diffraction!
Diffraction!
What a crazy word.
The phenomena where light breaks into a thousand jeweled pieces
as it passes through the translucent body of
a single
raindrop.
I want to know,
have you ever seen the rain?
Or held sunlight in you hand?
How about air?
Sitting in your chair, are you aware of this
invisible element
giving you life?
Invisible,
yet from them
all life proceeds.
Light and water,
two colorless curiosities,
invisible to the naked eye,
yet out of them is birthed
all the colors of the world.
Blues and reds and greens and purples.
A thousand colors painted
from one end of the earth to the other.
Together, the enigmatic combination of light
meeting the body of a raindrop,
produces something altogether new and wonderful and profound:
The Rainbow.
Listen to the astounding mystery it proclaims:
When all seems lost,
as your enemies close in around you,
suffocated by darkness and thirst,
no light to mark your way,
no water to cleanse your wounds,
no air to fill your lungs,
Even yet
Hope remains,
because God
– more omniscient than air,
more essential than water,
more piercing than light –
is present with you.
It is He alone who gives life
and brings forth color and hope.
Look! A beam of sunshine
splashed upon receding clouds
amidst the dark
a rainbow promise
declaring truth:
“all storms pass,
but my love is eternal.”
See it written on my
rainchildren!
Their life is but a moment,
yet how they shine with my light,
diffracting my love into a thousand colors:
Forgiveness-red
Boldness-orange
Laughter-yellow
Edifying-green
Peace-blue
Wisdom-indigo
Royalty-violet
Diffraction! What a crazy word,
to describe the full radiance of God
shining in the heart of
a single
Child.
