Heavenly Clouds
This was a very cold day on February 4 this year. I just happened to look up in my backyard and see these incredible clouds. So, I called it Heavenly Clouds.
I all I could think was, “God, all your creation is beautiful.” The clouds didn’t last long but it was one to remember. I should have shot video because they were moving very quick and looked like a river of clouds.
Sometimes we need to just pause and look around, and listen to the wind and nothing else. It is a great way to meditate and grow closer to God. Of course, this can be done anywhere. For me I have a room and chair in my home where I can say daily prayers after which I think to talk to Jesus and ask Him what he wants me to do. I’m lucky to get to go to a weekly Holy Hour in a chapel at St. Mary Catholic Church in Pensacola, FL. There He is in a Monstrance and I say “Your servant is listening.” Sometimes it seems like it has only been a few minutes and yet, it has been an hour.
Here is what the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has to say:
There are as many and varied methods of meditation as there are spiritual masters. Christians owe it to themselves to develop the desire to meditate regularly, lest they come to resemble the three first kinds of soil in the parable of the sower. But a method is only a guide; the important thing is to advance, with the Holy Spirit, along the one way of prayer: Christ Jesus.
Meditation engages thought, imagination, emotion, and desire. . . . Christian prayer tries above all to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, as in lectio divina or the rosary. This form of prayerful reflection is of great value, but Christian prayer should go further: to the knowledge of the love of the Lord Jesus, to union with him.