{"id":12162,"date":"2016-06-30T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=12162"},"modified":"2016-06-30T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T14:39:16","slug":"our-very-own-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=12162","title":{"rendered":"Our Very Own Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday a thunderstorm rumbled into town and started pouring buckets. I was sitting at my desk in my office. I should have been concentrating on work, but the storm got me thinking about rainbows. One of the disadvantages of living in a house surrounded by trees is that you’re not going to see any rainbows out your window. It was sad, I thought, that I would not get to see the rainbow at the end of the storm, but I hoped that my kids, who were out with their father, might.<\/p>\n

The storm continued. I listened to the rain and enjoyed the fresh air coming in through the window. I looked outside to watch the rain for a moment. Wait! Did I just see some red on the driveway? And some blue? Wait! Was that a rainbow arcing across my driveway?<\/p>\n

I couldn’t be sure, because it was so diffuse. I thought maybe my mind was playing tricks on me. So I went downstairs to look at it from a different point of view, and yes! There was a rainbow across my driveway. A rainbow just for me!<\/p>\n

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My Own Rainbow<\/p><\/div>\n

When my husband and kids got home, I told them about my rainbow and showed them the pictures. I had thought that they’d be excited about it, but what actually happened is that Livia started to cry. She was sad because she had never seen a rainbow before!<\/p>\n

I told her she’d get a rainbow of her own someday. What else could I say? And boy, was I right, because a few hours later, as we were driving to her doctor’s appointment, what should appear directly before us but another rainbow? “Look!” I said to her. “There is your rainbow. It’s a rainbow for you!”<\/p>\n

So we each got our very own rainbows yesterday. It was heartening. Even though rainbows are a natural phenomenon that is easily explained by science, they are so beautiful and amazing and fleeting that I can’t help but feel that they are special messages sent to us to refresh our hearts. Livia and I needed our rainbows yesterday, and we got them. Life smiled upon us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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