As I write this I'm visiting family - and new friends - in the north of England. Today one of those friends spent the day driving me around the Yorkshire moors and touring the house and grounds of Castle Howard of Brideshead Revisited fame. It was an 
absolutely marvelous day including tea and scones. The weather, always unpredictable in the British Isles, was sunshine one minute and rain the next. The countryside was full of breathtaking scenery: yellow gorse, sheep and lambs free to graze & wander everywhere, pheasant, 
quail, and rabbits. I felt as though I was on a This England photo shoot!
Kodak moments abounded. As I framed a picture of a distant dale bathed in sunlight I said, "What a pity there's no blooming gorse in the foreground." Never contented with God's gifts, always wanting more or something different. I immediately regretted my lack of gratitude. My friend and I laughed 
about it and agreed it's typical of human-kind. But God had the last laugh. Just around the next bend God gave us a rainbow, probably saying,"How about this, then?"
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