Genesis: "Dad, Come Ere! Qik!"
“I have set my rainbow in the clouds,
and it will be the sign of the covenant
between me and the earth.”
Genesis 9:13
This morning I returned from a jog a few minutes late. Not that I'm slow, mind you! I just got beat by a fast moving thunderhead, which made me pay for daring to venture out in spite of his threatening overtures. I stepped up to our front door, soaked from the cloud, which had already emptied itself on me, and my three-year old son met me with, “Dad, come ere! Qik!”
Grateful to be inside, I kicked off my shoes, got rid of my sweats and followed Joey through to the backside of the house where both Joey and Tommy were eager to show me their discovery out the back windows. A beautiful rainbow was painted upon the dark, blue-gray canvas sky! We enjoyed it for several minutes while my mind flashed back to Noah and God’s promise,
“Never again...” The rainbow was the sign of that promise. That was a long time ago. It still is.
© 2004 Donald D. Reigstad