Catching Rainbows

It was such a lovely day today.
The kind of day when the sun is shining so brightly on the outside, you want it to shine just as brightly on the inside.
So I washed windows.

Not all of my windows…but the ones on the doors that lead to my side porch.
My favorite place to be.
I love my wind chimes, especially on days like today…melodies of springtime
I love my porch swing…the perfect place to read a book.

I thought of Charlotte’s Web as I inadvertently knocked down a spider’s egg sac, hidden in the corner of the door frame.

When my youngest daughter was a toddler, she loved to be in our foyer at certain times of the morning. I could hear her small bare feet padding across the hard wood floors.
She would giggle with that contagious laugh that only children can do.
I would smile in the kitchen as I listened to her.
A mother knows when not to intrude on those moments…or the moment is lost.

One morning, she came down the stairs, squealing with delight.
I heard her gently hitting the wall with her hand.
Over and over…squealing, laughing…joy so real, you could reach out and grab it.

My curiosity got the best of me.
It was time to intrude.

I walked in the foyer.
I saw shafts of sunlight coming through the etched glass on the side of our front door.
It made spectacular prisms of light on the wall.

Mommy, I catch rainbows!

She held out her hand as if the most exquisite treasure was inside.
In her palm, she did indeed catch a rainbow.

A scientist would explain that wonder away.
The direction of the light…the kind of glass…the formation of the prism…
I did not want data. I did not want facts.
I wanted to catch rainbows, too!

She took my hand and held it in such a way that a rainbow fell right in the center.
She would close my hand. It disappeared.
She would open my hand. There it was.
We sat on the floor catching rainbows for quite a while.
I cannot imagine a more perfect morning.

The only thing that needed to be said, as we caught at least a million rainbows in our hands, was that a very awesome God created those rainbows.
Simple worship.

Our Creator spoke the world into being.
Our Creator created the universe ex nihilo…out of nothing.
Let there be light and there was light.
The magnificent light, that He spoke into existence, was now in our hands for these precious moments of morning.

I don’t know how long we sat there…at least until the rainbows went away.
I hugged her close and thanked Him for all He made.
It was good.
It still is.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. God said, “Let there be light” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. (Genesis 1:1-4)