a rainbow!

I was popping some peanut butter cookies into the oven when I glanced up and saw that rain had started pouring down.  The amazing thing about this is that it is raining, but there is beautiful, bright, brilliant sunshine streaming into the house, filling every room with the promise of Spring and happy nodding flowers and cherry blossoms floating to the ground. 

I was very excited and ran to various doors and windows so I could witness the spectacular rainbow that I was certain was out there.  You can’t have such enthusiastic rain in conjunction with such happy sunshine and NOT have a rainbow.  But no matter how much I looked, and believe me I’ve looked, from all directions, and yet…no rainbow.

And then I figured it out.  I can’t see the rainbow, because it must be sitting right on the roof of our house!  So everybody else who is out scouring the horizon for it, can see it.  And it is the most beautiful rainbow the world has ever seen and it is resting on the roof of our house because there is such love and joy and happiness in here, and that happiness that I have been blessed to find IS the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  I don’t know why I’ve been so lucky in my life, but I have been.  And I am grateful.  And I would put good money on the fact that for this split second in time, with that rainbow pouring into our house, that everybody who sees it, will know how just how happy we are.

Posted by Meg Tilly on Saturday, March 01, 2008 in Chewing the Fat