Sky Blue

     Today ~ another one. Here I am. Dragged myself out of bed and out the door, dropped her off at school, back home again. It is misty out there. Mountains are hazy and shadowy and clouds are low. We are learning about clouds in home school right now so my five year old casually mentioned that there were strata nimbus clouds out there this morning. I don't know if she was actually right because it was not actually raining but she had the right idea. I was thinking as I was driving about the fact that I so often forget that above those clouds there is that clear blue sky and warm nurturing sun. It is always there. I know that is no new concept but today there are people in my life that I am asking for things for ~ asking for mercy and miracles and help, and somehow the thought of that blue sky up there behind the grey and mist and fog, somehow it is helping me remember the power of the asking and the importance of taking the time to do the asking ~ to just ask, to press in, to pray.  So much haze and mist and grey in people's lives but above it always there is hope and sometimes I think hope is sky blue.