When you think your road is rocky
and a bit too steep to climb,
When you think your guardian angel
needs to work some overtime,

When your personal jigsaw puzzle
has some pieces that won't fit,
When life has no rhyme or reason
and you can't make sense of it,

YOU NEED A RAINBOW

When the clouds are dark and stormy
and have blocked the sunshine out,
And perhaps you start to wonder
what this life is all about,

When your trials and tribulations
seem to be so hard to bear,
And it seems there is no
justice anytime or anywhere,

LOOK FOR YOUR RAINBOW

When the molehills seem like mountains
and the obstacles are great,
When you feel so heavy laden and
your worries just inflate,

When you can't see any ending to
the problems that you face,
For they just keep on increasing
and you need some breathing space,

PRAY FOR YOUR RAINBOW

It may be you need to look
a little higher than before,
Or perhaps a little further to
see past the clouds once more.

But you'll know it's worth the
effort when your rainbow you can
see, And you understand the
love behind God's creativity,

SEARCH FOR YOUR RAINBOW

For your rainbow holds a promise
that this turbulence will cease,
And your inner conflict will
become, instead, deep inner peace.

But if, though searching, you
can't find your rainbow at this time,
Until you can, I say with love,
you're welcome to share mine.

Written by Jacqueline Ramm

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Matthew 11:29-30
If we take his yoke, if we bow to his Lordship, if we yield to his relentless love, two things begin to happen: First, we begin to learn. Learn from me, he says. Christ himself is our teacher, and under his tutelage, the secrets of life begin to unfold to us. We begin to understand ourselves. We begin to understand why men act the way they do, and what is going on in the world, and what is behind the strange currents of human life that reflect themselves in the pages of our newspapers. What are these powerful forces? How do they operate? The Holy Spirit becomes our teacher. We are taught by the Spirit only when we take Christ's yoke upon us.

And the curriculum is outlined for us here, too. What is the subject matter? What shall we study? Learn from me, he says, for I am gentle and humble in heart. Our whole subject matter will be gentleness and humility; that is, the secrets of inner beauty. Anyone can obtain a form of outward beauty. If nature does not give it to you, then you can buy it in little boxes. But it is inner beauty that makes a person attractive, that makes him or her wanted and desired. This is nothing more than gentleness and humility. Gentleness is strength under control; humility is selflessness. This is the course of study.

Then we discover rest: You shall find rest for your souls. Soul rest! The soul is the mind, the emotions, and the will. This is a rest that affects us mentally, emotionally, and volitionally. How does it appear? Jesus goes on to tell us, For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. That which seems to us to be so restricting, the yoke of Christ, that limitation he has put upon us, that control he exercises in our lives, which at first seems to be narrow, restrictive, binding us down and holding us back, we discover, when we yield to it, to be easy and light. This comes as a delightful discovery. We find that to yield to his control is the key to true liberty. To surrender to his desire is to find the greatest enjoyment. To give up, and to give in, is the only way to really begin to give out.

" Over the Rainbow" was performed by Margi Harrell