I love to wink at my kids. It’s such a fantastic way to tell them I love them, that they are special, and that I’m thinking about them at that very moment. It’s an intimate expression because, although we can be surrounded by people, the wink is silent. Secretive.
Meant for them alone.
I want to share a time when God winked at us. We had just closed escrow on our home. This gift of a home, this blessing had been long awaited. We have been through a long 2 and a half year journey of waiting on God’s promises. Waiting on His provisions. Just waiting. I’m guessing that some of you are familiar with this type of waiting. You know the long, dark nights. The empty wallets and the buckets of tears. You understand the questions of ‘why God’ that plague your mind and rob your resolve. You have been there, the waiting on a timeless God while stuck in our world of constant ticking clocks.
So as we walked across our new threshold, keys in hand…the enormity of how far God had brought us was fresh on my mind. There was no doubt that our God had provided THIS house for this season. This was all Him. And then the wink came.
The day had been rainy with springtime showers. We had to run from the car to the doorway to escape the sudden drops, which is always fun with 2 little kids! As we walked into the front room the sun came back out. And as I looked across the empty room and out through the windows into our new backyard I saw the most vivid full rainbow I’ve ever seen.
{This picture just doesn’t do it justice!}
As it hung perfectly arched over our property I knew instantly this was a holy moment. This was my loving God looking straight at me and ‘winking.’ Intimately and secretively letting me know He loves me, that He was watching and that this gift was from Him. And call me crazy, but I felt that although other people probably saw ‘our rainbow’…its importance and meaning was meant for us alone.
In my mind I saw our last couple of years, the journey of faith, come full circle. And I felt His sovereign promise. I understood His reminder that He has a covenant with me. An unshakable one. That although these last few years have felt like a ‘flood’ of need, discouragement, and desolation…He did not let the flood waters overtake us. He was and is faithful to remember His covenant.
In that moment with a beautiful rainbow over my head, I felt His love. His smile. His wink.
…”Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I will remember My covenant between Me and you…” Genesis 9:14-16
Kallie