Meeting God in the Cloud

Some days  I read Stream in the Desert  by Mrs. Cowman for a devotional insight.   One morning this week the verse was from Exodus 20:21.  "Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was"    That was a slightly scary thought to me.  We have had a year of clouds at our house;   illness,  surgery, recovery,  high schoolers,  6 year olds and some in between,  extended family issues on both sides.   

Here is a  quote from Streams :   "Do not be afraid to enter the cloud that is settling down on your life.  God is in it."  That is truly where I want to be,  with God.    But I really would rather meet Him on a sunny hillside somewhere near the Jordan, (and if he provided bread and fish I wouldn't complain either.)   But I guess our nature is to sometimes  shun the sun, so He takes us to a cloud and we follow because we don't have anywhere else to turn. 

I woke up this week and my mind was racing through all the things I needed to get done for the day,  week, year.  And then God graciously stopped me, and brought my attention to Him.  There had been a pretty crazy storm in the early morning hours and He showed me how to praise Him for that.  Then he began directing my mind to other praise worthy things,  things I normally wouldn't have praised Him for because I would have only seen a cloudy patch.  But looking for God in the cloud made me thankful, and more at peace,  because God was there.  And Praise God,  He always will be.

thanks for reading,

Reb