ONWARD ~ and ~ UPWARD Judith Florian, R.N.

Featuring articles and discussion of diverse topics and issues, including:

Disabilities, Home Health Care, Sexual Abuse of Children, and Advocacy

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The sky is a wondrous source of inspiration, comfort, and uplifting thoughts.  Do you remember as a child laying on the grass, looking sky-ward, and pointing out the different pictures you saw in the sky?  There's a clown, one child would shout.  No, it's a monkey with a hat on, another child would say.  And every child saw something totally different.

Clouds serve basically one function: to create rain.  They create many seemingly  negative obstacles: they obscure our view of the stars, block the sunshine and contribute more "blah" feelings on overcast days.   But, I think God created clouds for more than watering the earth.  

Who hasn't marveled at the towering "marshmallow" look of billowing pure white clouds.  Riding in an airplane, one almost feels like they can walk across them, they look so solid.  Who hasn't followed a thin wispy cloud that cuts across a blue sky.  And even darkening skies draw our attention upward.

Yes I think children know what God created clouds for... to gaze upon, to let imaginations soar as high as the heavens, and to dream ....

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