CLOUD-GAZING

Welcome, all cloud-gazers. Come on, admit it! Who loves lying on your back on the grass or on the beach, and watching the clouds roll across the sky, making weird shapes and dancing with one another?

Are you a closet spectator of clouds? No need to be. It is a skill-set that’s not recognised. That’s right. I’m reframing it as a skill. Others call it wasting time. Some call it procrastinating. Wool-gathering. Day-dreaming.

Want to learn how to be a cloud-gazer? First, you need to be willing to come into a place of worship. What? What’s worship got to do with cloud-watching?

Stop and think. Who made the sky? Who made the clouds and sent the wind? God did!

He gave us imagination and loves to see us use it. Imagination that’s surrendered to the Holy Spirit and cleansed, is very powerful.

So, when I look at the clouds, I can see faces. I can see animals in funny poses, dolphins playing with a ball, an elephant with his trunk in the trumpeting pose. They make me smile. Joy bubbles up in me as I think about my heavenly Dad who caused me to notice His handiwork. (If you want to pat me on the head and send me away, you’ve missed the point).

Ever notice when you’re stuck on a knotty problem, that focusing on something else completely different, can provide a key, a different perspective to your issue?

Did you know that this sort of alternate brain activity, like cloud-gazing, reduces stress, brings calm, and then releases creativity. It’s connected to dreaming. It’s what happens when we worship.

It’s being in the moment with God, connected, breathing Him in, breathing out His promises.

Jesus said, “Come to Me …..and I will give you rest…” (Matt 11:28).

Schedule some cloud-gazing time.