Watching Rainbows

This morning I was watching rainbows. The rain was on the ocean and the sun rose over Hualalai Mountain making the perfect condition for rainbows.  The clouds were white and puffy overhead with blue sky peeking through so I
watched a beautiful arch reach to the clouds on my right then another stream of color leaped from the ocean to disappear into the clouds on my left. Both were the landed feet of the same arch with blue sky and puffy white clouds forming the apex.

 




This made me think how we are part of the same rainbow. God's light shines through us and we reflect back glorious color. The right side of the bow this morning was busy shining on the town giving the clustered roofs a special glory.  The left side of the arch touched the ocean, far down the coast, which had the grace to reflect it back from the mirrored water and begin to complete the circle. From the two shimmering sides of the rainbow I could know where the top would be even if the blue and white of cloud and sky didn't didn't refract the full range of the visual pallet.  I knew it was there.

 You and me, we are all part of the same rainbow.  You are there with your amazing colors shining    and I are here, reflecting off the ocean.  Those we don't see now are up in the blue and white where our limited human vision doesn't see but God's glorious arch shows us that the bow is there.

Often we just look at rainbows.  This is  rainbows watching.