I love the rainbows God makes out of our lives. I’ve been reading this book Desiring God, by John Piper, and in it he writes how, “We were made to be prisms refracting the light of God’s glory into all of life.” Isn’t that an awesome analogy to our lives! I mean what a privilege it is that God would chose our broken lives to display His magnificent glory. To use our lives in such a way that bends his already brilliant glory into something of unique beauty. In 8^th grade, for my science fair project I did this experiment where I compared how different light bulbs affected a prism. In order to control the variables it ended up becoming basically what one light did to a single prism suspended alone in darkness. It wasn’t the coolest science fair experiment, but it was still neat to see how the brightest lights reflected these bold rainbows onto the walls of the box the prism was suspended in.  My life is far from a lone prism in complete darkness. Yes there is a ton of darkness in this world, but God has blessed me and surrounded me with the lights and lives of many strong Christian friends and leaders. Nonetheless, when I read this quote I was reminded of this project and soon found myself smiling at the thought of how beautiful and bold the rainbow that came from the light of God’s glory would be; especially since there would be multiple prisms refracting His glory together. I mean imagine with me a world where Christians weren’t just lights but rainbows. They didn’t just share of God’s glory, they let His glory be refracted through their lives in such a way that rainbows danced about them. I remember how when I was little I loved dancing around in the living room. I particularly loved playing dress ups and dancing around as a princess. I had this one dress that had silver sequins and while it wasn’t my favorite (my Cinderella dress was my favorite!) I loved wearing it in the afternoon, because when the sun came through our big living room window and I was wearing it, rainbows would dance all around me as I spun! What if that’s what our Christian lives looked like? What then is keeping us from shining for God in this way? His glory is bright enough, so it has to be something on our part. My theory is that our prisms of life have fallen into the mud of sin and we won’t let Him wipe it off so that His light can get through (and refracted out!). My prayer now becomes that He would daily wipe away the muck on my prism so that His glory will not only be able to enter into my life, but also be refracted out in a way that displays the brilliant and bold rainbows of His glory!! I don’t want to just see His glory, I want to let His glory be seen in my life, and since for some mysterious reason He wants to use our lives in that way too, I say, let’s put an end to letting muck keep us from dancing in rainbows!!