“I Do Set My Bow In The Cloud…” – Genesis 9:13
What is a rainbow? It is light refracted through the prism of water, so that it is no longer a blinding, indisernable jumble – its true and beautiful spectrum revealed. So it is with God’s covenant. Man is made in His image, but all creation reflects and refracts Him, the true light. His shekinah glory would blind if not kill us, were we to lay eyes upon it (just glimpsing the tail end of it nearly killed Moses and lit up his face) but through his creation we can see and understand Him, to the best of our pitiful limits.
Florida, where we live, is the lightning capitol of the world, especially in summer…. But at least we get the blessing of beautiful rainbows on an almost daily basis.
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David Churchill Barrow is a regular Liberty Island contributor and along with his wife, MaryLu Barrow, is the author of the young adult novella Silver and Lead.
About the Author
David Churchill Barrow
David Churchill Barrow is a Massachusetts “Swamp Yankee” descendant of William Bradford and Myles Standish of Pilgrim fame, who grew up on a farm that has not been sold since first built in the early 1700s. In that farmhouse still hangs the commission of James Churchill as a captain in the Massachusetts militia signed by John Hancock, and the sword of Thomas Churchill, a Navy engineer who served in the Blockade of the Confederacy. David’s father, David Bradford Barrow, was a Marine gentleman farmer who commanded a flame-thrower tank in the Battle of Saipan in WW II.
David’s childhood was mostly spent in the woods and swamps of Southeast Massachusetts, building forts and pretending to be Daniel Boone, the Little Drummer Boy of Shiloh, or just an unnamed “Minuteman” making ready to “fire the shot heard round the world.” He has lived and breathed history since first opening his eyes.
He met his wife MaryLu in high school. They were married in 1979 and have three adult children. MaryLu is a former elementary school teacher working on her first children’s book. Today they live just outside Tampa, Florida, with their
Berger Blanc Suisse Attila and their two cats, Minnie and Tink.
David has written non-fiction historical pieces and columns for
The Tampa Tribune (now the Tampa Bay Times),
The Marine Corps Gazette and the “
Lore of the Corps” section of
The Marine Corps Times. He has been a regular contributor of both short stories and posts to
Liberty Island Magazine since its inception. He and MaryLu co-authored
Silver and Lead and are working together on a YA novel centered around the so-called “Boston Massacre.”
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