Up the Sunbeam

"When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds," Genesis 9:14 NLT God delights in putting examples all around us that can speak to us if we're listening.  Last week I drove all over an unfamiliar neighborhood, possibly even breaking a few traffic rules to find a spot where I could capture this breathtaking rainbow! There is no . . . height without depth, dawn without dark, found without lost, reunion without parting victory without defeat, rainbow without storm. We would never know how high the mountaintop is unless we had been to the valley.  Our hearts would not thrill to the first rays of sunrise without experiencing the long dark night.  If we had never known the panic of a missing child (even if only for a moment), we would not know the utter euphoric relief of the moment of finding that lost little one.   Without the ominous black-clouded drama of the storm played out in a wild sky, we wouldn't know how much the rainbow's pr...