When my daughter was very young, one night she was saying her prayers. She paused and asked me, “Mom, if I pray for a rainbow, will God make one?” Well, what could I say? Anyone who can part the Red Sea, can make a rainbow for a six-year-old. I hem-hawed around for a few seconds, and then told her that, yes, if she believed… Then I thought, “What have I done? What if there’s no rainbow tomorrow? What if there are no clouds? And if there are, what if it doesn’t rain? I’ve hurt the faith of this little one!”
The next day, there was not a cloud in the sky. Of course. Great. Now Mom’s a liar. It was Memorial Day, so we went to the cemetery to pay our respects. We were walking around, and I had hoped she had forgotten about the rainbow prayer. Apparently she had, but I had not. The scriptures say that if you believe, basically God gives you what you pray for, if you ask in Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name. I was having some worrisome thoughts as we walked through that cemetery. Then we came upon a section which was being watered with sprinklers. Lo and behold, there was Robin’s rainbow, just as plain as day. It...