by Donna Mccay

Created on: November 06, 2008

Clouds are facinating to watch every day. My sister even did a science project and daily drew the clouds she saw. She would see numbers and it was interesting to see where they were placed and on what day. There seemed to be more clouds on even days. Check it out for yourself some day. She got an A+ on her project as it was so different and no one else did the same.

There is a great contrast of black and white clouds. I love to see a black dark cloud hovering over an area and then there is this bright cloud with the sun shining through outlining the black cloud.

I saw a black cloud with a bright white cloud in the shape of an eye in the center. I thought of God's eye looking down on us reminding us to come to the light. Then the light cloud would slowly fade away the black cloud. So very cool to watch.

A friend in Vermot took pictures of clouds and gave them names. She had cloud waves that appeared to come crashing down. Angelic groups that formed a train across the sky. She would be awoken from sleep in the early hours to capture a cloud display in the sky over her property.

But my favorite was the cloud formation when I was at a ten day conference in Hartfort, Vermont. I daily went for a afternoon walk just before supper. I walked to an area where there was a road that went down to the White River where people could let there boats into the water.

There was a grassy knoll to rest giving me a place of peace and quiet away from the conference. It was really nice to get away as some days it felt like your head could take in no more knowledge. This was a wonderful place to escape and good exercise too.

I would throw rocks in the water and tried to make them skip. I would see how far I could throw and sometimes aimed for a target of a big rock in the White River. The White River was near White River Junction, Vermont.

I would lay back in the grass to take a short nap and when I opened my eyes the sky was changing and the sun was beginning to set. I saw clouds that were grey and black forming like sticks crossed every which way with a glow of fiery clouds right behind it. The cloud formations happened in stages. I wish I had a camera to capture each stage on film so I could show others.

Then another cloud began forming in the shape of a person but just the upper body. Then grey clouds of arms that grew from the body reaching upward. It appeared that the cloud person was in the fire and reaching out for help in a desperate way as the arms and hands just kept growing longer. It was like I could hear their cries for help to get out of the fire.

Then it began to fade away like the person did not receive help and was burned in the fire. It made me think of all the lost people wandering on the streets of our cities and these people are crying out to please come and help me. But no one comes because they are too busy, don't notice, or don't want to get along.

I shared in the service that night my experience of what I saw. We need to share the gospel with others so they will not burn in the fire. Several of us do street ministry in our cities and was a desparate cry for us to get to the streets to bring the light to the lost wandering souls crying out for help because they have lost the way.

That was my favorite cloud formation that I have shared with many people. The cloud shapes changed right before my eyes.

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