I love rainbows.
In the photo below we can see both ends of the rainbow. It’s a pity it was low tide and distance makes it difficult to discern all the colours of the rainbow.
Whenever I think of rainbows I can’t help but remember Kermit the frog singing the “Rainbow Connection”. As a mum and a singer, I used to sing it to my children when they were young. Take a trip down memory lane and see Kermit and Deborah Harry singing a duet on the Muppet Show.
Rainbows feature in the Bible. Not only did God use the symbol of the rainbow to strike a covenant with man, but a rainbow also features in the heavenly throne room.
“Look, for I am now going to make a pact, a special covenant, with you and all your descendants. This covenant also extends to every living creature in the world—the birds, the domesticated animals, and every wild animal on the earth—as many as emerged with you from the ark. As part of this covenant, I promise you I will never again wipe out all living flesh by means of flooding waters. Never again will a flood destroy the earth. As a sign of this perpetual covenant I now make between Me and you and all living creatures along with you, as well as all future generations, I will hang a rainbow among the clouds. When that rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember this eternal covenant I have made with all living creatures.
Look for the rainbow, and remember My promise. With it I sign the covenant I have made between Me and all the living creatures residing on the earth.
Genesis 9:12-17 The Voice Version
Same rainbow – closer view of colors
How do we get rainbows? (this is the simple answer)
Rainbows are spectacular rays of color. Sunlight looks white, but it’s really made up of different colors…red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The sun makes rainbows when white sunlight passes through rain drops. The raindrops act like tiny prisms. They bend the different colors in white light, so the light spreads out into a band of colors that can be reflected back to you as a rainbow.
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-optical-illusions.htm rainbow
God is a great artist and loves color. Just look at the flowers and trees, sunrises and sunsets….
Even God’s throne in heaven has a rainbow around it.
Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.
Revelations 4:2-3
Someday we’ll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me!
Blessings,
Marilyn