Rainbows and Reality

Isn’t believing in your dreams and finding comfort in nature’s reminders a better choicethan having no dreams, being cynical or unmoved by life’s wonders? Would you beable to claim it- a place where there isn’t any trouble, where your life’s footprint is evident, your signature clear? Everywhere “we are” can be “that place”. We can choose to make a trouble free place for others, by our attitude, our enjoyment of goodness and grace,our ability to embrace “whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.” Phil 4:8 Have you noticed that when you see a rainbow while traveling in the car, it appears and disappears? It hasn’t moved, we are looking at it from a different place along the highway. Maybe, it doesn’t have to be ” somewhere over there” out of reach, perhaps we are at the end of our own rainbows and see the colors or cannot see the beauty based on our personal outlook, perspective and vision.

The rainbow has a place in legend owing to its beauty and the historical difficulty in explaining the phenomenon. It is remarkable in all cultures and religions for both scientific and optical intrigue. Aristotle was the first to study rainbows and other laws of nature.

There is also more specific kind of chance, which Aristotle names “luck”, that can only apply to human beings, since it is in the sphere of moral actions. According to Aristotle, luck must involve choice (and thus deliberation), and only humans are capable of deliberation and choice. “What is not capable of action cannot do anything by chance“.

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Have you been lucky enough to see a rainbow recently?Do you believe that being “lucky” is more likely than a chance encounter with a symbolic rainbow?  Do we really need more than this symbolic arc in the sky to be reminded that we choose our reality?