Yesterday I was reminded of the wonderful song ‘Rainbow Connection’…
Why are there so many songs about rainbows
And what’s on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it
I know they’re wrong, wait and see
Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me…
I heard about rainbows in Sunday School – the sign of God’s promise to Noah. At school I learnt about refraction and the science of rainbows. Throughout my life I have seen, enjoyed and wondered at rainbows.
There are some great rainbow songs; rainbows represent hopes, dreams, belief and trust in something or someone super-natural in an uncertain future. The rainbow holds particular significance to a number of friends… to lovers, dreamers… and me.
This morning, in my annual journey through the Bible, I’ve arrived at the Christmas narrative. They say that in the nativity story there’s a character for everyone to identify with… young teenage girl and middle-aged man, home-owner and home-less, wise educated and simple working class, religious and religion-less, accepting and sceptical…
I identify with the old man in the story… Simeon, a godly man, has been promised that he will see the Messiah before he dies. Simeon’s hoping, waiting, anticipating… He has a dream.
A month after Jesus is born his parents take him to the temple; it’s the Jewish tradition – to present their firstborn son to God. God tells Simeon to go to the temple where he meets Joseph and Mary, and recognises that this one baby is special:
‘Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation…’
He’s finally found his rainbow connection. That’s enough.
So this morning I’m musing on Kermit and Simeon, a frog and an old man, the rainbow connection, a renewed experience of faith hope and love. I’m praying for my friends… for the lovers, the dreamers… and me.
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One of my favourite songs! Great musing, pal xxx
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Me too, John. Kermit asks the questions, leaving us to suggest our own answers…
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Rainbows. Oh hell yeah! According to the ancient story, God flooded the entire earth to destroy all of an irredeemably wicked humanity except for one man and his wife and their immediate family who rode out the diluvial disaster in a huge boat built after a lifetime of faith because the man believed what God had told him and acted upon that trust in God, and when God pressed the reset button on our spared human race, along with the male and female pairs of all the wildlife that God had sent to the man to get on that great big boat, God set a rainbow in the sky after the long rain had stopped to symbolize that He would never again destroy the world with a flood.
Next time the whole world gets destroyed, it’ll be by fire, which we’re fixing to do to ourselves any day soon.
But they’re good stories . . . and I believe them both.
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As you say, Mark, they’re great stories, containing huge truth for us to discern, and shed light on the rainbow….
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