Eight months after the Arbor Day tornado, these families in Nebraska and Iowa will be home only in their dreams this holiday season.

For most of us, a rainbow is a symbol of hope. Hope after the rain. Hope for a better outcome. Hope for a better tomorrow. It sounds like a shallow hope to me. We can even hope in the rain as well.

Several months later the rain from heaven was restrained and a rainbow appeared in the sky. Genesis chapter 9 verses 12-16 reads, And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me ...