The Joy of "Rainbow Days"

          Have you had your Joy Juice today?  Let’s call this a “rainbow” day and look for treasures of JOY!

            We’ve all heard the Irish legend which asserts that a "pot of gold" is to be found at the end of a rainbow. But today, let’s look, instead, for the treasure chest which overflows with genuine joy!  John Ortberg uses the term “Rainbow Days” in his book God Is Closer Than You Think. We are reminded that God placed a rainbow in the sky (after the flood) as a symbol of his covenant with Noah.

            Ortberg writes that when we experience “rainbow days”, God’s presence is hard to miss. Though we have not had a “Noah-kind” of experience, we each have our own stories of God’s intervention, protection and blessing.  To quote Orberg:  “On rainbow days your life is filled with too much goodness and meaning for you to believe it is simply by chance.  On rainbow days you find yourself wanting to pray, believing that God hears (your prayers). On rainbow days God seems to speak personally to you through Scripture.  You find yourself believing that it is a good thing to be alive, and each good thing you see fills you with gratitude toward the God who made it. .  When you’re in this zone, the kids can spill red Kool-Aid on a white carpet and you laugh patiently and remind them that you often spilled things yourself when you were a child.”

           

            In other words, on “rainbow days”, we’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in our heart!

           Though all our days will not be “rainbow days”, here’s hoping that today will be a joyfully blessed one!