Every cloud…

…has a gap. It’s true. When you are walking, driving, strolling along you may look up and see that those white masses don’t all link together there are gaps that let you see the blue… or grey sky. Have you done the same when you are flying above the clouds? Not in some kind of drug induced stupor; I mean in a plane, of course!

It is a marvel that still holds my eye today. The vast spaces of land in a kind of chess board order of dark and light and it’s the same from a distance.

Once upon a time in Australia I saw the clouds pick and choose where to let the light fall from a boat on the Great Barrier reef.

The day before I had the rainforest stretching out before me and it had patches of luminous green trees that caught the sunlight, fresh and clean. In the darker patches it had an unknown territory that hid many secrets that the eye couldn’t penetrate.

It got me thinking about how we individually view the world. There are many of us that view the light and embrace its warmth, spreading its health and beauty until the shadow cuts it off and creates a wall. There are also many of us that wallow in the dank and dark unknown refusing to move into the light and see what is beyond that boundary. Speaking literally, there are negative people and there are optimistic people. Dark and light.

However, unlike the rainforest, we don’t have to rely on the clouds to choose whether we are in the dark or light part of our lives. We can rise above and choose the right path for us. For in the light there is life and clarity and submersed in the dark are the wallowing shadows.

So whether you are looking up at the clouds or down through them, remember; the light might just be one step away but it’s down to you to move forward or back. Don’t stand still too long, the clouds may shift and make the decision for you.

Take your path.
Take control.
Take the light.