Tonight, almost out of the blue, I looked up at the sky.

What I saw was a quiet game between clouds and stars.

The clouds were moving slowly around the stars, drifting and reshaping themselves, and the stars were shining, perhaps brighter than any other night I remember this year.

We are standing at the threshold of spring, and somehow it seemed to me that the clouds and the stars were playing this gentle game to remind us that change is coming.

The clouds tonight had different shades: dark gray, silver, and white. Yet what captured my attention most was the light. In the middle of those shifting clouds, glittering and steady, were the stars.

What a reminder!

Some clouds may be moving across your life right now.

Perhaps not the soft white ones you would prefer.

Perhaps darker clouds, heavy and uncertain.

But the stars are still there.

They shine as a reminder that there is always light, always the promise of a new beginning, always mercies that are new every morning.

So, I invite you to look at the sky, whether the sky above you or the sky that covers your life right now.

And please, do not let the clouds alone fill your vision.

Let your soul be like the stars.

Keep looking toward the light.

For beyond every cloud, gray or white, the light is still shining!

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

— John 1:5