A Few of FR's Finest...Every Day...03-23-06....Rainbows

DollyCali | March 23, 2006 | DollyCali

[DollyCali]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow -- Old Native American Prophecy

Dawn Rainbow

A rainbow only bounces back to you the color in the light.
You get something quite special when the circumstance is right.
An early morning shower when the sun had hardly shown,
Caused the rainbow to get dressed in haste, in colors not its own.

Full golden was the rainbow, with neon at the edge,
As the sun was rising sleepily from beyond its earthen ledge.
I had never seen a rainbow that was monochrome like that,
But I remember vividly just where I was and where it sat.

There was no gold to find down on the ground beneath the bow,
For all of it was utilized in putting forth the glow.
No doubt you think I’m daft to even say I saw the sight,
For no one else has ever seen a rainbow in dawn’s light.

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . . . . June 14, 2004
© 2004

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together.... 

Author unknown...

Rainbow Links

Rainbow Motorcycles

Scientific Explanation of Rainbows:
Educational site explaining
the physics and chemistry of rainbows.

The Rainbow Bridge

Reflections

- God sets a mirror down for us,
To bounce back sunny days,
He does it when the rain has passed,
To help us see the rays.

The reflection that we see in it,
Is not of hair and skin.
What we see is an image of,
The gloried state we’re in.

Light pink, and brighter orange,
And yellow brighter still.
I sit and look at glory’s frame,
Upon my favorite hill.

The others call it rainbow,
But I know what it is,
A magic mirror in the sky,
That lets us know we’re His.

The body that we occupy down here,
Is nothing like its start,
For one, the most attractive thing,
Has always been the heart.

God looks into our heart and then,
Just for His own amusement.
He gives a glimpse of what He sees,
And laughs at our confusement.

“That doesn’t look at all like me!”
I hear your protests start,
But when you look at other folks,
How can you see their heart?

If you admit there’s beauty,
Reflecting from some source,
Just think how glorious it will be,
When He’s revealed full force.

And you and I are with Him,
And joining in the glow.
Next time you see a rainbow,
I thought you ought to know.

NicknamedBob April 5, 2004
© 2004

12-28-05 ~ Hall of Fame #14

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 03-20-06 Military Monday 03-21,22-06...Spring, Time for Birds, Bees and Bloomin' Trees

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[DollyCali]

now don't be too hard on yourself.. that is one of the nicest red x's I have seen in a long time!

:-)

we have all .. been there.. done that.. (and I STILL do)

[NicknamedBob]

"Your table setting is wonderful!"

Stolen, hijacked, and modified from Dolly's post number five. And the picture was smuggled in from elsewhere.

... At least the poem was mine.

[DollyCali]

Thank you tulip.. hope you are doing okay..

[DollyCali]

It is all yours.. most of us here beg, borrow & steal! we call it recycling?

[Majie Purple]

Awww thank you Dolly! So sweet of you to say that & the encouragement touces me so!

[JustAmy]

You hijacked a good one. It looked different with the poem and the rainbow graphic.

[MEG33]

;)

[DollyCali]

Okay, step right up for your "whatever" in rainbow. I did purposefully AVOID a recent use of rainbow in today's society. Hate to see God's beauty perverted in that way

[Majie Purple]

"...I did purposefully AVOID a recent use of rainbow in today's society. Hate to see God's beauty perverted in that way..."

Nor do I acknowledge that perversion with God's beautiful rainbows....GOD'S RAINBOWS not there's...nononeverneverunhunhunh!

[proud_yank]

Rainbows?! Heres the biggest one that I ever caught :-)

[Majie Purple]

HAhahaha! I almost posted a rainbow trout pic too! Funny! Glad you went with it!

[proud_yank]

Thanks! Always gotta keep in mind that there are many better things associated with rainbows than 'alternate lifestyles'.

[proud_yank]

I did purposefully AVOID a recent use of rainbow in today's society. Hate to see God's beauty perverted in that way

You and me both! Then I remembered fish.

[MEG33]

Just beautiful, Bob..Thank you so much for your contributions to the Finest!

[no more apples]

apples: likes sunsets & squirrels. Somewhere in there, a story resides perhaps?

Well, actually, it's all jonny's fault - the squirrel part, anyway. The love of sunsets happened because God made me that way.

[DollyCali]

great pix..rainbow trout are lovely fish! where is the setting of that pix(if you don't mind telling?)

[proud_yank]

Copper Harbor, MI (Upper Peninsula) aka "God's Country". I used to live near here and miss it dearly!

[Majie Purple]

Your #197 gorgeous shot!

[DollyCali]

Hi apples.. well, we must make sure you are the guest of honor at the sunset thread in a couple weeks.. Bob will have sunset poems (in my tables - HA), Lotsa pix & much sunshine as it gives good night rays of kisses before retiring ....

[proud_yank]

Tasty fish too, I might add! That was on my balcony in Houghton, MI (in da UP). I had a stream about 10 minutes away from where I lived that I would fish daily.

Excellent paddling was literally ~3 minutes away. You can see the water to the left of the white building behind my fish. Ohhh, how I miss it so!

The other picture I posted, Copper Harbor, has been written up in numerous outdoor magazines. Even had a blurb on the cover of National Geographic Outdoors. If anyone hasn't been yet, I highly recommend visiting Michigan's Upper Peninsula.