Last Monday night, a choir member leaving rehearsal captured something breathtaking—a rainbow over Park Avenue Church as a storm passed over Minneapolis. What’s the adage—a picture is worth a thousand words? It doesn’t have to be a thousand words—or one hundred or ten—but what words come to mind when you look at this picture?
My first word was, “Wow!” And then I remembered something MaryAnn McKibben Dana once wrote about God’s promise following the flood in the days of Noah. “Rainbows,” she said, “don’t reveal themselves on pure, clear-weather days. They require just the right combination of sunlight and rain droplets for the proper refraction to occur. It’s a meteorological as well as a spiritual truth: the promises of God are empty platitudes without a backdrop of challenge, adversity, even despair. The covenant of God stands in the midst of a world that is still not as it should be.”
Given all the challenges you face—the storms you’re going through and will go through—that’s a promise worth remembering. You are always somewhere under the rainbow.
Much love,
Pastor Gregg
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