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You must have rain and sunshine to have a rainbow.
I don't think it will ever get old... the rainbow sightings in this beautiful land where I live.
...The blessings of having both rain and sunshine. This is the beauty of rain and the Sun living side-by-side.
As a former California girl, I do like the sunshine, I must say... But, in all my years of living in California, I don't think I ever saw even one rainbow.
I have seen multiple rainbows here. Often, really. Today, again, sitting in the slicing cold wind and being pelted by the rough rain... there it was! Where did it begin, where did it end? Just brilliant and beautiful! A rainbow.
Each time, remarkable! Magnificent. Surprising and exciting.
But, I endured the rain today in order to enjoy the rainbow.
Life is like that, isn't it? He promises to make all things beautiful, doesn't He? In His time, He says all things will work together for the good of those who love Him!
In order for His beauty to shine through me, I need a little "rain" in my life. He reflects His light off my rain! He uses it. He uses the rain: that suffering, this trial and that pain. He uses the rain to reflect His glory. He shines forth His colors. The rain is like a mirror, reflecting and showing forth the Light. And then,living in Him, I am beautiful.
...like a rainbow.
You have to have gray clouds as well as blue skies. Without the sun, you have no rainbow---this is true! But, with the sun... and the rain... you have brilliance. With His glory, You have beauty. "to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us" (2 Corinthians 4:7)
"Indeed in our hearts we felt the sentence of death" ...a rainstorm. "But, this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God" ... the sun. "God, who raises the dead!" ...the rainbow! (2 Corinthians 1:9)
Indeed, you must have rain and sunshine to have a rainbow!