I told her when I was her age I could remember my mother telling me that we should not be scared of the storm. That the thunder and lightening was God working. I told her about how he is busy watering the earth and taking care of it and that we should not be afraid. I never forgot her telling me that and to this day those words help calm me in the storms.
The time clicked on somewhere over an hour and the storm continued. My Granddaughter and I shared different story's about the weather and one was how God put a rainbow in the sky as a sign that he would keep his promise and not flood the earth and mankind again.
When the lights came back on we went back to playing and before we knew it, the time had come that her mother was walking in the door to take her home.
The two of them hadn't been gone long, maybe a whole five minutes, when I happen to look out the back window to see if it were still raining...
I ran through the house like an excited child, grabbed my camera, and as I was slipping on my shoes I told my husband to come see...
Not a half ! Not a single ! A full, Double, Beautiful Rainbow !
BEAUTIFUL ! God is still in control. God keeps all promises. God heard me tell my granddaughter about his work. And I bet Mom heard me too!
"Like the appearance of a RAINBOW in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord . . . " (Ezekiel 1:26-28)