A Heavenly Rainbow for the New Year!

Warm New Year greetings and good wishes to all and I do pray that 2013—the start of a whole new era according to the Mayan calendar!—brings new inspiration and blessing into your life.

My new year began in a beautiful way. By chance I was able to witness an extraordinary sunrise on the morning of 2^nd January. I watched the sun rise up out of the sea into a bank of cloud which was spectacularly illumined by the light. Then I turned, and behind me was a glorious full semi-circle rainbow. Its beauty touched my heart and lifted my spirit to heaven. It seemed to me a symbol of the dawning of our new Golden Age of Brotherhood—the gold at the end of the rainbow. It seems to me that when we have the experience of witnessing a particularly beautiful manifestation of natural beauty, this truly can ‘open our heart to God’, and help uplift us through darker times. 

As White Eagle says in the sayings in his little book The Source of All our Strength, entitled ‘The Rainbow’: ‘A sorrow can be like a rainy day with sunlight shining through. And sun through rain creates a rainbow. So it is with human life. Look to the sunlight of God, knowing that your Father-Mother will send you nothing but good, that your loved ones are in God’s care, and that God’s love for them is greater than your own.’

Just a couple of days after my ‘rainbow experience’ I had the opportunity to see a remarkable movie, ‘The Life of Pi’, the adaptation of the 2001 highly acclaimed novel by Yarin Martel which has been translated into 42 languages. The film has been described as: epic, transcendent, ground-breaking, and a visionary journey of self-discovery. In my opinion it really does live up to all these descriptive words and is so well worth seeing. It opened my heart even more to a realisation of God’s extraordinary care for us all and the happiness which can come when in spite of all the tests we are able to surrender everything back to God. The story of the friendship between man and tiger whilst adrift on the ocean for many days, and the utter surrender to God that the young man Pi experienced, is deeply moving and, I think, a lesson for us all. So this is a New Year resolution I’m working on and would like to share with you—to be able to keep our hearts open to God at all times, and surrender all into His/Her loving care.