Clouds

                           Has anyone else noticed the clouds this year ?
                  Is it just me? Or is there a uniqueness to the clouds now ?
I guess I know the answer for myself at least. There is most definitely something beautiful about the clouds I have been seeing this year. It has been happening throughout these last months and I can't keep my eye from looking up to gaze in awe of the clouds in their beauty . This morning as I came to my sunroom for my quiet time with my savior I noticed right away the way the thick,full, rain threatening clouds kept rolling on and off to my left. They drew me in and no matter how many times I keep looking back to my reading and praying I could not help but sneak a peak again and again.
        The sun is now shining through as the clouds have parted quite a bit to allow for its beauty and light to shine. As I type this thought I think about my own life full of stuff that clouds my shine that God created in me to shine out there for those in my basket of life. I do want to be a light for others to see and give hope to in the midst of dark and cloudy days . We all have our lights and those clouds that keep us from shining out . I want to see with God's perspective what those clouds are and how they are meant to make my light shine even more intense than it would without them. I can't dispel all those clouds but I can look at them differently. Maybe that is why this year I have been so mesmerized by the clouds and their beauty. I have asked my husband many times this year " Is it me or are the clouds different ?"   You know I don't think I can tell you how he answered. I have been too busy looking up admiring the clouds.
       Life's clouds can be so intense they sap the beauty of our lights right out of us to the point we are covered in heaviness and weighted down, our light unable to be seen. We can look up to the One who gives us that light and ask for his light to shine in and through us so we can see with his perspective the beauty of those clouds. Today I am praying for His glorious light to overshadow the clouds that threaten to hide my light. His light is above all, and beyond all, and over all!
      At this moment I am able to look at not only the clouds in the sky above me , but my own clouds threatening more rain, worse yet, snow and cold, and say Lord God, you have created me for light and you knew there would be days I am hard pressed to shine .  I need your perspective of my clouds and your power to shine amidst the clouds and all that comes with them . Thank you Jesus .
          Isaiah 42:16
I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known .
I will make darkness light before them , and crooked places straight. These things I will do for them ,
And not forsake them.
  Some times we are blinded by our clouds and the many days we have them . But with God we can keep going as he prepares the way ahead. Amen