It was like something in a movie. I couldn’t believe my eyes when a rainbow formed over the spot my 15-year-old beagle is buried. There hasn’t been a rainbow in that spot… ever. How does a sweet moment like that even get explained? Here’s the picture and a video I posted on Instagram, along with one of my favorite songs right now.
The lyrics of that song are so good. Thank you for sunshine. Thank you for rain. Thank you for joy. Thank you for pain. It’s a beautiful day.
It felt like a hug from God, and as I type I think of his name “Immanuel”… God with us. Even in something so little in the grand scheme of things, He cares. God with a little nudge to remind me He’s here and all my sadness hasn’t gone unnoticed. But the timing is pretty crazy, too.
The possibility of seeing that was so incredibly small. I had just finished a run which I had to do on that day because of a decision I made 6 days before. I also ran earlier than usual because of the dark clouds. And how about the spot where Piper is buried (over 3 weeks ago)? Not much science behind that, I just picked a spot that I thought she would like and would fit with the surrounding area.
The rain starts as I’m cooling down, sitting on the front porch of my parent’s in-law suite. The rainbow lasted for maybe 2 minutes. If I hadn’t run, or hadn’t sat down to cool off, or hadn’t looked to my left. So many factors that it would be humanly impossible to align everything in that type of synchronicity, especially when a natural and unpredictable phenomenon is part of the equation.
I’ll never forget that day. God is good and Piper was (and is) the treasure at the end of that rainbow.
-Out of the Wilderness
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Out of the Wilderness 
oh. my. gosh. i really don’t need any help crying.
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pretty crazy, right?
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