A break in the clouds

Then there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads as they stood with lowered wings. Above the expanse over their heads was what looked like a throne of sapphire, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
-Ezekiel 1:25-28

I just want to share with you something beautiful that I saw today that just put me in awe of God. It was coming a completely massive flood on me driving to a county an hour north of here and the clouds were literally so low that I thought they might sit on top of my head. I looked up and felt like a thick bed comforter (a cold, wet one) was blanketing the world and trying to shut us out from anything Heaven-ward. Of course that's just silliness because God is in this world and nothing can block Him out.
So I drove a little farther and a break in the clouds allowed a wide band of amazingly blue sky to blaze through and catch my eyes, briefly until they went right back to the road! ;-) jk jk
Soon enough I reached the strip of road where the sun behind me beamed out through the band of blue and projected its light and warmth on the landscape in front of me. And a dazzling rainbow shot out of the mist in front of me so close I literally thought I might reach out the windshield and grab a piece of it to keep forever. I was driving on a divided highway, and I'm not even lying, the rainbow arched from the right side of the road directly over the highway in front of me and landed its left side on the pavement on the opposite side of the dividing grass. I've never been so close to something I imagined was so... un-reachable. Hillsong The Stand was playing on my iPod, and I had to lift my hand that wasn't holding the wheel in praise and awe of my God and the beauty that He comes up with!
It must be at least somewhat close to what Ezekiel experienced in the presence of the Lord... coming so close to something you see as so far away, despite that you try to make it real and tangible to your mind every day.
I also like that this verse describes the radiance as a rainbow. I stared in awe of that radiance today, only to discover that Ezekiel describes the radiance surrounding the Lord in the same way. AWE-some!! Something I can grasp, wrap my mind around!