A Truly Magnificent Rainbow

Tuesday night I went grocery shopping. I knew it was going to rain so I went right after dinner hoping to get there before the deluge that was forecasted. I did with literally moments to spare. Then from the time I picked up my first bag of red seedless grapes in the produce section to the last box of band-aids in the pharmacy area it rained, rained, rained.

Miraculously by time I checked out and paid for it all, the rain stopped. And what greeted me outside was truly a miracle - a HUGE rainbow spanning the entire sky. It was so BIG; it was so WIDE - I could see the entire thing, including BOTH ends at the northeast and southwest horizons, and the entire thing in between.

For a full 10 minutes I just marveled at it, totally mesmerized by its scale and beauty. Soon other shoppers joined me. And there we all were, just standing in the parking lot with our grocery carts filled to the brim, staring and smiling, and talking with each other about how we've never before seen anything that even closely resembled this incredible sight.

As the clouds moved in and started to obscure the Full View, others came out and similarly marveled. "You should've seen it 5 minutes ago," we all said in unison. The point was lost on these newcomers, because even the Partial View was more beautiful than anything pretty much anyone there had ever seen before!

How does magnificence affect you? If you were to make a point of bringing more magnificence into what you do - into who you are - starting tomorrow, what would you do? What could you do?

Now go make it a reality.