On Tuesday night, on our way into St. Louis, the sky was gorgeous. We had a lovely view of an entire rainbow, and the effect of the clouds on the rainbow was something. I took several pictures, none of which truly captured the beauty of the rainbow. This one seems the best to J and I:

As I was struck by the beauty of the rainbow, I tried to imagine what Noah and family must have thought as they saw the first rainbow. As lovely as this one seemed to us, the first rainbow surely put this one to shame. How full of awe that moment must have been! A promise that God would never again destroy the world with a flood. And a reminder of the picture the ark gives us of our own way of escape – the Savior who was born to die to save us from our sins.

A neat thing about God’s timing is that the next day, we talked about Noah, the ark, the flood, the picture of the coming Savior, the rainbow, etc, as we got ready to make and put up Wednesday’s ornament for our Jesse tree. God is good.

When I met my dear friend Sue last week for dinner, one of our cats hopped in the van with Stephen and I, and I was well on the road before I realized it. Thankfully, “Brownie” found a comfy spot to ride, and didn’t jump out any of the times the door was open. Since our cats are outside cats, this was Stephen’s first close up.

Kate is a friend of mine that I have known since we staffed together at Turkey Hill Ranch Bible Camp in our teens. I was blessed to reconnect with her last fall at a bonfire/hayride. Within a week of that event, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. God has done amazing things in Kate’s life over the past year and it has been a blessing to share in His work by reading her blog.

Recently, testing has shown what looks to be a regrowth of the tumor. My desire to increase the army of prayer warriors praying for Kate and her family has finally resulted in a “blog button” for Kate. Please consider adding Kate’s button to your webpage and/or blog.

Here is the html code for the button –
<a href="http://katesnodgrass.blogspot.com/"><img border="0" alt="Learn about Kate" src="http://www.shammelle.com/shared/KateButton150wide.jpg" /></a>

or if you want a wider version –
<a href="http://katesnodgrass.blogspot.com/"><img border="0" alt="Learn about Kate" src="http://www.shammelle.com/shared/KateButton200wide.jpg" /></a>

It is relatively simple to add elements in blogspot, but if you have questions or if you work with a different format, I’ll do all I can to help make it work for you.