There Is Hope!

I took this picture a few months ago when I was going through one of the hardest times of my life.  A time when I felt hopeless.  I'd been betrayed by one that I trusted.  I looked in the sky and saw the most unbelievable rainbow I have ever seen.  It was huge and colorful and I could see it bow all the way from beginning to end.  So big, in fact, that I could not get the whole rainbow in the picture.  And the colors were so defined.  The picture does not do it any justice.   I honestly felt as though I could have taken a few steps and found the pot of gold.  The sun was shining brightly and glistening off the rain puddles and droplets in the grass.  The storm was passing over.  And I felt hope again.  Oh, that reminder!  That promise that He gave us so long ago was again reminding me that all was not lost.  There is hope!  Today, I thought of that betrayal again.  I felt the familiar sting.  The ache in my heart almost took my breath away.  I began flipping through the pictures on my phone to pass time away during my lunch, to try to take my mind off things, and there it was.  The rainbow.  The promise.  The hope.  So I post this picture today, not just for me, but for anyone else who reads this that may need a little reminder. All is not lost.  There is hope.  Cling to the promise.