Once a week, usually on Sunday, my husband and I
drive to Poulsbo, a town about half an hour from our house, to do our
grocery shopping. The store we go to has a couple of features that are
important to us, such as a huge organic food section and no
"membership" card. Plus it's close to one of our favorite restaurants,
where my husband wisely feeds me before we go grocery shopping, thus
saving us untold amounts of money. Shopping while one is hungry can
become very expensive.
This week the drive was especially
stunning, with the Maple trees and Sumac beginning to show their
colors. Some were brilliant yellow, others were bright red, and others
were multicolored. The colors seemed to almost glow against the dark,
gloomy storm clouds overhead. One cloud in particular seemed to be
positioned directly over us, as our route wound around various bays of
Puget Sound.
As we turned a bend in the road on the drive home,
we both gasped in awe of the rainbow displayed right smack in front of
us. It was a partial rainbow - just a shaft - but it was so brilliant
that it reminded me of a lightening bolt. I've never seen a rainbow so
intensely bright before. And just to the right of it was a mirrored
reflection of it, with the colors reversed just as a mirror reverses
the image reflected within it.
We played peek-a-boo with this
bolt of rainbow almost all of the way home, as the road curved and
turned, moving the rainbow and its reflection to different points on
our vista.
This morning as I was coming out of sleep and into the
awareness of this reality, I was remembering the rainbow, and was given
this message to share:
All of us have the potential at any time
to be beautiful, brilliant rainbows. We create ourselves as human
rainbows, using a combination of the bright light of the sun (our
Divine Self), the darkness of the storm clouds (the challenges we're
facing), and the rain (the healing properties of our emotions).
The darker the storm clouds, the brighter we can shine... with the full spectrum of all our beautiful colors.
Shine on....
