Glorious weather brings a smile to your lips. You raise your eyes to the sky and bask in the warm sunshine. Why this upliftment? Why do you not feel the same when the sky is gray and cloudy? All of life is a metaphor. All is simply a different way of expressing the same thing: God. God is light, and warmth, and goodness. How do you define these? You use words and images to describe the indescribable. God is a feeling. That God exists at all is a knowingness within the heart. Even this heart is a metaphor, is it not? Clouds obscure the light. These clouds are like your thoughts, which obscure the Light within your heart. Is it any wonder you long for the sun to come out and warm you with its rays?Raise your face to the sky and give thanks, not only for the sun, but for the clouds as well. All you see and all you experience is evidence of God. The clouds exist to bring you closer to the light, for how would you recognize the light if you did not know darkness? Rejoice in every moment of this living metaphor you call Life.