Color

As I think of the word color, many things go through my mind. Color me gone, a saying in the seventies. The Color of Money, a movie in the nineties. A coat of many colors, a story in the Bible of one of young Joseph's prized possessions......also a song made famous by Dolly Parton. People of color, referring to the Negro race. These colors don't run, talking about the American flag and the American people, right after September 11, 2001. An off color joke, one that is not told in mixed company. The colors of a rainbow. I think I will write about my main thoughts of color from the ages of 13 through 17, then write of my thoughts from age 35 to the present.

When I was a kid of thirteen my Pa bought me a used Yamaha 100, and boy, would it scream. Color me gone was a favorite saying of mine. I had four motorcycles and a very fast car, so it is no small wonder that 'color me gone' didn't translate into 'color me dead', or 'color me all broken up', but it didn't.

I still get excited, to this day, at the sight of a rainbow. The colors are just outstanding, and the promises given to us in Genesis 9 are very encouraging. The most awesome colors I have ever seen occurred four or five years ago, on Bucy Lane. There were two rainbows visible in the sky at the same time. Both were going from north to south, with one in the west and one in the east! Talk about colors....seeing two rainbows at once was just incredible!