I Trace the Rainbow through the Rain

I Trace the Rainbow through the Rain
Genesis 9: 14- 25

Nineteenth-century Scottish theologian and pastor George Matheson lost his sight when he was a student. That led his fiancée to break off their engagement because she could not face life with a blind man. He never married; his sister looked after him for some years in his blindness and supported him. When her wedding day came, he was overcome by grief, sadness, and anxiety, and spontaneously wrote the hymn addressed to “The love that wilt not let me go.” He writes, “I trace the rainbow though the rain, and feel the promise is not vain, that morn shall tearless be.” When I was checking out this story, I noticed that someone who had posted this hymn on her blog commented on how the hymn gave her shivers. She had reacted to it in a way appropriate to Matheson’s story as well as to the hymn...