There's Always a Squeegee When You Need It.

There is nothing more disgusting than a gi-normous splat on the windshield as you are driving down the road.

A grossly messy one.

Even the wipers with lots and lots of water-spray did little but to spread the grossness all the way over to my side window.

Blech.

I had to stop and get gas anyway and wondered if gas stations still had those squeegee-things-on-a-stick that men grab out of a bucket.

I don't know the magic behind those squeegee-things-on-a-stick, but squeaky clean my windshield they made. Even at arms length.

On with my day!

A pretty ordinary one at that, other than a birthday lunch for my nephew. A milestone of 16 years--so precious.

And Friday nights are not for cooking, so pizza was on my mental menu as my husband left to visit his mother at her place where she has made new friends ... and has finally remembered some of them.

I watched the clock to time a perfectly warm pizza for when he came home.

It was the second stop sign just a hop-and-a skip away from home when I noticed it. If I had looked up when I left the house I would have seen it then, but ... I had other things on my mind.

Coming to that second stop, the most awesome rainbow literally made me gasp! I could even see a pink layer underneath the bright blues, greens, yellows and reds. I don't think I have ever seen that color of pink before in a rainbow.

I didn't want to lose any seconds so I grabbed my phone, looked in the rear view mirror for other cars and snapped away. I just sat there in awe and absorbed all the beauty I could before I had to leave. I knew it would be gone when I got back.

Got the pizza, walked out the door of the pizza joint ... and there it was still. Wow! I snapped away at the still brilliant rainbow. It followed me all the way home and I got to experience various views of it's beauty.

I was hoping my husband would get to see it when he got home.

And he did.

But what I didn't realize until later was; the best picture of all the angles I took was the first one I took through my windshield.

The windshield that was squeaky clean.

There's a gentle and beautiful reminder here by One Who is loving, faithful and kind--Who is giving, caring and Who rises to show us Compassion.

Who never leaves us, and provides squeegee-things-on-a-stick to help with unpleasantness in our lives because He has something awesome to reveal, a treasure for our heart--a good and perfect gift.


I can hear Him say, "Rest in My promises dear one ... enjoy My gifts.

I pray you do too.




In His loving arms,

Pat