So never let a cloudy day ruin your sunshine, for even if you can’t see it, the sunshine is still there, inside of you, ready to shine when you will let it.
– Amy Michelle Pitzele
We are so stuck on perceptions of the situations around us that quite often on stormy days we will say things like "I wish the sun would come out" or "The sun didn't come out today." Statements like these reflect the fact that we didn't see the sun, but we know the truth. The problem is that we allow how we feel and our perceptions to be more real to us than the truth that we know.
The truth is the sun didn't do anything differently. It wasn't one degree out of position. It was right where it was supposed to be, shining just bright as it always does. The sun didn't change, our perception did because something, storm clouds, got in the way.
The Son is always shining in our lives. Sometimes the storms of our situations, our feelings, our messed up minds cover the skies of our souls with clouds that make it hard to see the Son or feel the warmth of His love. But it's still there, just as bright and hot as before. Jesus doesn't change, and His love for us never fails to rise with His mercies that are new every morning. The rains will come into our lives. Sometimes they're just brief showers, and sometimes the storms last so long we begin to think that we missed God's note to build an ark. But every storm runs out of rain, every cloud eventually dissipates or is blown away, and we will experience the presence of the Son in our lives again. Today let us trust the truth that the Son is there and full of light and love as always, and let us not choose the sensations of our experiences as the foundation for our beliefs and response and attitudes.
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