Clouds.  From white billowing cotton balls, to dark rolling storm clouds, I love them all.

My favorite hangout on a lazy Sunday afternoon is my roof-top!  I love being close to the sky, seemingly miles away from anything else in the world, just God and I.  God loves when we enjoy what He makes, and I think He gets great pleasure in creating beautiful master pieces in the sky with the clouds.  I never cease to be amazed at the creativity and immense beauty and even hilarity of the clouds as they slowly drift by, constantly changing and evolving into new and different shapes.       

Ever since I was a kid, I've loved to watch the clouds and try to find shapes, animals, things, faces, anything, in the clouds.  One shape lasts only long enough to find it, revel in the beauty/hilarity of it for a few seconds/minutes, before it becomes distorted and vanishes. 
I like to think of every uniquely shaped cloud I see as a love note straight from God's heart to mine.  Can you tell that I was feeling very loved on this particular roof-top experience?!  I often laugh at the hilarous shapes God brings to me- He truly does know how to humor me! 
I'll let you decide for yourself what you get out of these clouds- trust me, they are all something!

My Child...Your Life is a Symphony
You are to Me a beautiful song.  Your life is a sweet symphony that I Myself am composing note by note.
I take your failures, your tears, and your triumphs, and I turn them into a glorious harmony that will be
sung in the heavens for all eternity.  All your thoughts and deeds are laid before Me like notes on a page.
Every choice you make is a significant chord in an eternal arrangement.  Don't let the noise of the world destroy your magnificent melody, My beloved.  Seek Me in the quiet stillness of the morning, and I will fill your heart
with divine music.  Stay in rhythm with My Spirit throughtout the day, and I will make your life an irresistible
medley that will linger like sweet perfume in the hearts of all that journey with you.  Walk with Me in
absolute surrender, and you will draw others to Me in a rhapsody of praise.
Love,
Your King and your Composer

 Vision and Reality
"And the parched ground shall become a pool"
Isaiah 35:7

We always have visions, before a thing is made real.  When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say it is no use to go on.  Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.
    Life is not as idle ore,
    But iron dug from central gloom,
    And batter'd by the shocks of doom
    To shape and use.
God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way.  Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.  Think of the enormous leisure of God!  He is never in a hurry.  We are always in such a frantic hurry.  In the light of the glory of the vision we go forth to do things, but the vision is not real in us yet; and God has to take us into the valley, and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the place where He can trust us with the veritable reality.  Ever since we had the vision God has been at work, getting us into the shape of the ideal, and over and over again we escape from His hand and try to batter ourselves into our own shape.
    The vision is not a castle in the air, but a vision of what God wants you to be.  Let Him put you on His wheel and whirl you as He likes, and as sure as God is God and you are you, you will turn out exactly in accordance with the vision.  Don't lose heart in the process.  If you have ever had the vision of God, you may try as you like to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never let you.

- This book, "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers has inspired me so many times! 
Keep pursuing your dreams, goals, and most importantly GOD!