After the majority of my immediate family had arrived at our house (in preparation for T's First Holy Communion), it started to rain. We all waited inside the house and visited. When it started to slow down, the sun came out again. I looked outside and to my amazement there was a double rainbow that was extremely bright. I've never seen one that brilliant and well-defined. These pictures don't do it justice. The kids were in total awe. It was a great time to discuss Noah and the Ark and how God always keeps His promises. The conversation quickly turned to the fact that T was making his First Holy Communion the next day. The kids thought this was a sign from God that He was keeping His promise to us.
That evening we read from Devotional Stories for Little Folks by Nancy Nicholson ( available at www.chcweb.com/ ). There was a great story in there about the Eucharist and the Real Presence. It compared the Catholic Church's Holy Communion to that of a Protestant communion. (Very good story for the evening before the big day.) The story provoked our 10-year-old to ask Dear Hubby many theologically deep questions. I think he was genuinely taken off guard at her maturity in spiritual matters. The conversations came back to the double rainbow that we had witnessed earlier in the evening. The kids concluded that Jesus was keeping his promise to remain always with us by remaining in the tabernacle of every Catholic Church. The whole evening was filled with a beautiful chain of events that only God could have foreseen. Praise be to our Lord, Jesus Christ, now and forever!
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