The Little Things

I want to write a quick blog about this picture so I don't forget it one day.  As I mentioned in my previous blog, I was quite emotional around the time that I found out I was pregnant.  For Christmas, Andrew gave me these little red Converse shoes as a gift, and a sort of symbol that we wanted to have a child.  I knew in my mind that whenever we did get pregnant I wanted to take a picture with all of our shoes to announce the little one.  So, we found out on a Friday that I'm pregnant.  My family usually all gets together on Tuesday for dinner together.  I really wanted to tell them all then so I wouldn't have to wait very long.  In order for the picture to be ordered and sent to them by Tuesday, we needed to take the picture asap.  Unfortunately, that was an extremely rainy and overcast weekend.  Andrew didn't even want to go outside to take the picture, but I convinced him that it would be worth it and that even in the rain the picture would still look cool.  I had a couple of places in mind to take the pictures and this one here is at an overlook just near our house.  When we left our apartment it was raining but not quite as hard and just as we walked up to this overlook the rain slowed down to basically nothing and the clouds parted letting through some sun and sky.  We set the shoes up and Andrew started shooting away and after a minute or two we realized there was a rainbow!  It's quite hard to see in this picture, but coming out of the right hightop, there is a faint rainbow.  It was such a blessing to me.  I was such an emotional wreck, I didn't know how on earth we were going to have a baby, but God cleared the sky for us and gave us a rainbow.  His rainbow is a sign to all the earth that He will never destroy it again by flood, but for me that day, it was His way of comforting me and letting me know He designed this pregnancy and give us this little life and He is going to take care of us even when we don't understand or know how.

As soon as Andrew was satisfied with the pictures he had taken, we were about to move to another location and take some more but the skies closed back up and the rain began falling hard once again.  We decided that those pictures were just perfect and God had given us that little window to take them.  Sometimes it is easy to think that God has so much going on and He doesn't have enough time to worry about your little problems, but that's not who God is.  He loves us, each, individually, and believe it or not, He even cares about the little things in our lives.