Double Promise

yesterday we had a sudden storm.... the sun was shining all the way through, but there were dark clouds rolling across the sky, heavy rain, and gusts galore.

and i saw the most brilliant double rainbow i've ever seen.

both rainbows arched from the ground, up and across all the way across the sky, and all the way down to the ground again.... two full and complete rainbows.

and to top it all off, the rainbows didn't just disapper into the ground somewhere into the distance, behind a hill or some buildings.... no, it was in front of everything, practically into the ground at our feet.

we drove over a trainyard on an overpass, and i could see the rainbow in front of all the tracks, coloring the grime of the dark, ugly boxcars.

i can't help but feel, in retrospect, that it's indicitive of God's promises to me... they are all encompassing (full arches), more than i could ever imagine (double rainbows), and very present, very real, very now (into the ground very close to us).

not to mention that if i look at my life through God's eyes, it colors everything in the world the colors of His promises.

it felt like a rainbow hug from God.