Peace of Clouds

The clouds outside the widow fill the blue skies with dancing figures, slowly making their way towards the direction of the blowing winds. They are graceful and elegant, changing shapes as they move, rotating above the surface of the earth. They bring to the heart a peace of being in the moment, yesterday and tomorrow, equally unimportant and irrelevant. For today, they linger, and shift, and just are; oh what we can learn from a cloud.

Life moves along the winds of change as the cloud moves along the winds that blow from one corner of the earth to the other. We often say in times of great joy, “oh, to wish this moment would last forever”. We also often say in times of great pain, “oh, if only this moment would vanish, and life would return to what it once was”. Neither is realistic, and neither will occur. Life moves and with life, we are to move as well.

With all birth comes death and with all death comes life. With misery comes joy, pain with healing, failures with success, and on and on. It is in the minute of realization of who we are in the present moment where our strength comes, from the love of our God, from the strength of those we call beloved and friends, and from the power that the Creator set into us at the second of our conception. In that minute of time, when we can be grateful for the struggle as well as the success, is when we give up the need for control and realize we have all the control we need, in that singular moment of time.

I encourage you my friends and readers to be present in that moment of time and find your strength, giving away the calls of this world, realizing you belong to the winds of the next. And in that place of immortality, you will be with your Creator, forever. Living within this realization might just give you the ability to be like the clouds of the Creator, changing, shifting, growing, and eventually, becoming what God has designed you to be.

As I look back up into the skies and the different clouds now outside my window, I pray you can embrace the peace and serenity they offer. To quote an old support group motto, “Let go, and Let God”.


(The writings in this post are random thoughts and observations and are NEVER intended as professional or personal advice. Take what works and leave the rest. For information on mental health and/or substance abuse help, visit http://www.rodneyvalandra.com and refer to the links page.)

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