I have grown very fond of rainbows. Every time I see one, I think of a special family that lost one of their children as an infant, just weeks after he was born. It was a very sad and tragic experience. At the funeral, his mother delivered the eulogy. I don’t think that I have ever been more impressed with someone’s courage. I can’t and don’t even want to imagine what that would be like. She spoke she talked about how she loved to sing the song, “You are my sunshine,” to her little boy and she just can’t help but think that her sunshine was gone.
It was for me one of the saddest moments I have ever felt. When we came out of the funeral, it was a gloomy over cast day, and we made our way to the cemetery. It began to rain while we were at the graveside as a few people shared their thoughts and condolences. It was quiet and melancholy. As the service finished up and we began to get into our cars, the clouds broke just slightly and off in the distance was the most beautiful rainbow.
It is a moment etched into my mind, I thought to myself, there is her sunshine, peaking through the clouds at the end of such a gloomy day to make a rainbow and remind us all that those we lose are only as far away as our memories.
To this day, every time I see a rainbow, I think of him and I am in awe of what beauty even the smallest glimpse of sunshine can bring to our lives.
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