THE RAINBOW
The rainbow, our symbol of comfort and hope, we share with all living beings on Earth. The rainbow, a gift from our Heavenly Father, is shared with us through our Mother Earth; i.e., Mother Nature, as a sign or symbol of comfort and hope. This year our Earth Day message is of tidings of comfort and joy.
This beautiful phenomenon, the rainbow, happens when the white light from the sun encounters spherical water droplets in the atmosphere. The white light bends as it travels into and through the spherical water droplets, whereupon the white light is dispersed into the full colour spectrum of the colours red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, and takes on the shape of the water droplet sphere to form the bow shaped arc of the rainbow.
In the Holy Scriptures, Book of Genesis, God told Noah that He would never cause the Earth to be destroyed by flood ever again. “I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth”. [Genesis 9:13].
The rainbow appeared after the flood waters from the Great Flood receded. Many different cultures worldwide speak of a great flood as well. (Flood Legends From Around the World (nwcreation.net). The story of the Great Flood is also supported through the scientific evidence of the age of fossils, indicative of a rapid death and compressed burial of animal and plant life.
The promise made to Noah by God is expressed in the sky as the rainbow. God created the rainbow as a sign of comfort and relief. Comfort and relief is something we can all use right now.
If the sun is shining, we can instantly create our own rainbow by placing a glass of water on the windowsill to let the bright light of the sun shine through the rounded water filled jar, and there you will see a rainbow appear, and there in your heart, comfort and joy will be.
