Clouds and Water
Cloudy days hide the unobliterable sun.
Insults are clouds.
Sins are clouds.
We must pray the clouds away so that we can grow in the nourishing light and not shrink.
Some clouds stay longer than others.
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I’m a disillusioned optimist, not a cynical pessimist.
I don’t see the difference in half-full and half-empty because it’s still the same amount of water, and we are meant to have our cups overflow, our telos, and sometimes it seems to and sometimes it doesn’t. If we say we’ve reached a state of overflowing we’re either deluded or fixing to be spilled, and if we say we haven’t, we lack faith or the dispassion that comes when a permanently full cup is realized.
Clouds are made of water.
