Why Rainbows?

Why "In Pursuit of Rainbows"? I guess my blog's title could be rather misleading, since the term "rainbow baby" exists. A rainbow baby is a baby born after a miscarriage or loss, "the theory being that the beauty of the rainbow does not mean the storm and the devastation never happened, but that something beautiful and full of light has emerged from the darkness." (Original source of definition unknown.) I love that description, and I think it's wonderful when women get the opportunity to have and keep their rainbow babies.

This blog, however, isn't limited to the idea of adding that sort of rainbow to our family. (So don't get too excited, family and friends!) I'm not opposed to the idea, and I might actually use this blog as a way to record our adoption journey if that's where God leads us. My desire to be "in pursuit of rainbows" is actually to intentionally move through the storms and to consciously seek after God's will. Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and have been called according to His purpose." That good, whatever form it may take, is the kind of rainbow I'm chasing. I want to want what He wants for me! 

I love the lyrics to the hymn by George Matheson called "O Love that Will Not Let Me Go," and its sister hymn "It Is Well with My Soul" by Horatio G Spafford. Even though I'm not particularly fond of the typical organ-playing and dull tempos of hymns, the lyrics are often incredibly beautiful and have helped encourage me during the most challenging seasons of my life. In the modern fashion of creating new words by meshing two words together, I could say they're "hymnspirational." The line "I trace the rainbow through the rain" is what this blog is all about, as we long for when that morn shall tearless be!