A Gift in Everything

A light flashes before me
A light that pierces through the clouds
Reminding me -
Within the darkness
The light can still shine through
...
A little later on,
The clouds reach over the whole sky
As I see it,
Yet what I see is a small dimension of the whole
For the sun still shines it's light behind the clouds
The seed of light is always in me
The sun keeps shining
Even when the clouds hide from my outer view

While the clouds cross over the sky
It leaves me with a gentle cool breeze
A refreshing caress over my skin
...
I awaken
Not only to the light of the sun
But the gifts of the clouds.

Recieved by Stephanie Sarasvati 11/29/2011

Synopsis:
As I sat by the water by the beach yesterday, there was a moment when the sun peaked its face out to greet me.  It was glorious.  Then the clouds came by in full force, and sitting there as present as I could be, I felt the breeze, cool, refreshing, a gift.  I felt as though the the Mother Earth was trying to remind me that our gifts don't just come from the light, but from the dark moments in our lives.  This is a great reminder.  When the moments are tough, remembering there are gifts in them, we just have to open ourselves up to them.