BY ARAIN NIWEL

There was once a little girl who loved the sunshine. She welcomed each day that the sun shined and ran to play in the fields.

One particular fine day, she was playing in the field in the warm bright sunshine but then clouds full of rain began to roll in. Dark and threatening and across the field she could see the rain beginning to fall.

She stamped her foot and cried out, “I hate the rain!”

As she said that a beautiful voice came from behind her saying, “It is an ingredient.”

The girl turned and beheld a beautiful woman who smiled at her.

The girl scrunched her face and said, “ingredient?”

“Yes,” the beautiful woman said, and she indicated the girl should turn.

There across the field was now a rainbow that stretched full from horizon to horizon.

The girl squealed, for she loved rainbows even more, and this one was particularly beautiful.

The woman knelt beside her and said, “You see in order to have a rainbow you need both the sun and the rain. You need the light and the dark in proper measure.” The woman hugged her and then vanished.

Afterwards the girl loved the rain just as much as the sunshine for she now knew that in order to have a rainbow you needed the ingredients of the sun and the rain.