rainbow promise

“If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
  even there your hand will guide me.”  Psalm 139:9-10

Last Saturday the time finally arrived for leaving our summer home.  I’m never ready to go, but there are reasons to be heading home:  birthdays, baseball games, book group, doctors and dental appointments.  It’s time to go back to real life.

However, I can’t resist sharing one more Epworth image.  I’m an early riser, sometimes before dawn.  I sip my tea, do a crossword puzzle, practice Spanish and sit in the scriptures, often before the rest of my household wakes up.  One morning in mid-August I looked up from my morning preoccupations to catch this amazing double rainbow illuminated by the rising sun.  I’ve never seen one quite so iridescent. 

Today I have traveled west, well past the other side of Lake Michigan, halfway across the country.  But this image feels like a two-fold promise.  First, I hope it is a promise that I’ll be back next year.  But more importantly it is definitely a promise that even if I “settle on the far side” of this particular inland sea, the ever-present hand of God will hold me and guide me.  God has made my body a temple of His abiding Spirit, and He has grafted me into His household every day of my life, wherever I am.  I do not need to long for the presence of the Lord, as the writer of Psalm 27 did when he said, “Let me live in your house…and pray in your temple every day of my life.”  There is nowhere that I flee from his presence.  He lives in me.
            “He lives in you, He lives in me
             He watches over everything we see,
             Into the water, into the truth
             In your reflection, He lives in you.”    Lebo M. 

Love, Liz