“Drive faster mom! I think we can catch this one!”
That’s my 10 (almost 11) year old shouting at me from the back seat on the way to soccer practice. No, he wasn’t concerned about being late – he wanted me to catch up to the rainbow that had just appeared. It was sunshine/raining. You know the kind, where there’s sunshine but also a drizzly, misty rain. Perfect conditions for rainbows, and sure enough, there was one right in front of us.
I drove faster but, as it turns out, we didn’t catch the rainbow and I didn’t find a pot of gold. I may have missed out on the money, but I did find inspiration for this week’s post: chasing rainbows.
First, the science:
Rainbows are created when sunlight hits raindrops at a certain angle. Sunlight is actually composed of many colors, but when it’s sunny out we only see white light. When it rains, and sunshine hits the drops at a certain angle, the different colors of sunlight separate and we see …rainbows!
Pretty cool, huh? The rain actually allows us to see something that otherwise would be invisible!
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As I was driving with my son “chasing” a rainbow, I got to thinking about what rainbows represent. To my son it represents a pot of gold and a leprechaun, to me it represents reassurance from above and hope: comfort that things will be better, encouragement that it will be worth it, a promise that something good can come out of something bad. “Yes, sure, it’s raining now, but just look at that sunshine and those beautiful colors.”
If it weren’t for the rain, we wouldn’t have rainbows. How true for our lives as well: If we didn’t have a little of the bad stuff, we wouldn’t be able to see all the beautiful goodness around us.
I was already planning on writing about rainbows, and today feel compelled it’s even more appropriate – I just learned one of my dear friends has colon cancer. He’s going to have to endure some “stuff,” and his family will go through the rain with him. But with their love and support, and the love and support of his friends, there will be a rainbow for them all after the rain.
I love ya, man. Keep looking up.
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