Moon Clouds Devotion
Moon Clouds Devo Purpose: God is NOT a feeling. God is steadfast and omnipresent. The poem “Moon Clouds” was written during a hard season of my life. I couldn’t tell you what the current events were around me, but I could tell you what my inner world was like: It was dark and lonely and slow, like the clouds that continued to cross the sky the night I wrote the poem. I was outside on a rooftop porch on top of the dormitory building, hoping to gaze at the stars to lift or calm my stormy spirits. This was a place I came often to meet God because the heavenly lights gave me a bigger perspective of who God is. However, when I went out that night in search of His presence, I was met with clouds. I felt as though I was looking at my own mind, shadowed and near tears. (In fact, I may have been crying already). I watched and waited and listened as I prayed. I lifted my head and just then, the clouds moved aside for the moon to shine for a short moment of time. In that instant I felt God’s pres