As I was driving to church this past Sunday for worship, I couldn’t help but notice the clouds scattered across the sky. To be honest, clouds are always something that I have enjoyed looking at. When I was a kid, I used to love the pastime of seeing clouds as shapes of different kinds of animals or objects. And now that I have two kids, we frequently look at the clouds and do the same thing: we point out clouds in the sky that remind us of something and try to get everyone else in the car to see it too.

The cloud viewing this day wasn’t about seeing shapes in the clouds as a lion or a car, but it was about the uniformity I saw in the clouds. Here’s what I mean. When I looked up and saw the clouds, I had to do a double take, because it honestly looked like the clouds, by and large were all the same. I know there’s a streetlamp in the way, but I had to take the picture at a right light so I could safely do it.

If you look at the clouds by both the red lights, hopefully you will see as I do, that the clouds look practically identical to one another. When I saw those clouds, I couldn’t help but think that God was sitting at the computer that morning and looking down at Mesa, AZ, and decided to simply click the CONTROL-C and CONTROL-V buttons on the computer (those are the shortcuts on a computer for copy and paste).

And I know you can’t see the rest of the skyline but trust me when I say that there were multiple other groupings of these clouds that looked like they had just been copied, pasted, and stacked one on top of the other.

I honestly don’t have anything profound to share with you about this experience, other than it made me chuckle to think of God looking at the skyline and copying and pasting clouds. Perhaps God has a better system that is more reliable than most computers, but whatever God used it gave me a smile to have that thought and to admire once again God’s wonderful creation.

I will invite you to do this though: make someone smile. Share a kind word, tell them a funny joke, share God’s love with them so that they may feel better today than they did the day before. There is enough negativity and hatred in the world, we need to balance it out with God’s love, hope, and grace.

Blessings,

Pastor Brian