After the Rain

As the showers came pouring down today, I looked for a special delivery, because it always comes out when the sun shines after a rainstorm. I didn't see it yet, but I knew it would appear because it always shows up when the sun shines after the rain. For a minute I stepped away from the window but came back and there it was. In all of its brilliance and beauty, a perfect arch of colors beamed among the clouds in the sky.

I think about the 1944 song by Ella Fitzgerald featuring The Ink Spots, "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" and reflect on this experience I am embracing. The third verse of this song says:

Into each and every life some rain has got to fall

But too much of that stuff

Is fallin' into mine

And into each heart some tears gotta fall

And I know that someday that sun is bound to shine

For a moment, I felt a spiritual epiphany, when I thought about the rain in our lives (trials and tribulations) and what happens to us when the sun (Son) comes out. As that brilliant light shines, that's when our true colors (victory) begin to radiate brightly, as we become the dazzling gems in God's eyes. Our true vibrant colors shine through the rain in our lives when we allow the Son to come in as the sun comes out! You can't have a rainbow without the rain!