This rainbow appeared last night, after hours and hours of rain. Here's a breakout of our experience with Hurricane Irene.

Rain
It rained for hours.
Our basement flooded.
We lost power.
I played Trouble with the boys for hours.
We  have a stream in our yard.

Rainbows
We have a gas stove and wonderful meals using up things that might spoil.
The house is gorgeous by candle light.
I finished two books.
I played Trouble for hours
No trees came down.
We have a stream now in our yard.

Here's a quote from one of the books I finished yesterday, The Sense of Wonder, by Rachel Carson. (If you've never read it, treat yourself!)

"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength."

I think if anything else, the Hurricane gave us all a bit of our wonder back.

[Today's Memory Verse]
"preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. " (2Timothy 4:2)