With every cloud there is a sliver lining.

     Today while walking the dog... usually not a fan but since the family is away it falls to me to perform this duty... I was thinking on what I think God is doing in my life, about trusting him, and all that fun stuff :P But then I saw the sun set.... Glory rays and all. It was beautiful as the sun shone through the clouds lining them with light and beams of silky gold.

     Hmm, an idea came to me, those clouds framed and showed off the sun so perfectly. But only if the clouds were broken apart. You can't see the sun on a thick cloudy day and it is hard and dangerous to stare at the sun without covering some of it. (I got 8 at the sun stare! haha). With the cloud covering it partially, you can see the sun and what it can do.

    And now the meaning I got from it. Looking right at God is dangerous and pretty much impossible so you need a covering. As Christians was are called to be like Jesus and point to the Father. We are the clouds! A chosen people to show what God is like. However, how can people know what God is like if we don't open up, if we obstruct God with our own bullheadedness or fears of imperfections, our pride?  What people need to see is not seeming perfection but rather the chinks in our armor, our places of failure and vulnerability and how God is making them beautiful. It's a place of freedom and nakedness before those who love you and those who don't. But like the clouds frame the sun in broken beauty our lives display God's beauty when we are broken.
    I hope this makes sense. Here is a visual :D

In the Caribbean while at YWAM 2009.