A Rainbow in My Cloud!

I want to go out tonight... but I am so0o0o0o tired. Tonight I got to see Maya Angelou speak. I didnt realize that she is 80 years old! She is an amazing woman. And very funny! She had us cracking up laughing. She sat up on the stage and told us all kinds of stories from her life. Her main theme was about being a rainbow in somebody's cloud. She said that she had an uncle who was crippled and he did not like to travel much because he was ashamed of his disability so he stayed in his small town in Arkansas. He taught her her multiplication tables by holding her by her neck over the pot belly stove.

Years later, her uncle passed away and she went to settle his estate and she met a man in Little Rock who wanted to meet her. This man told her that whatever she wanted to help her settle her estate (including a Lawyer) he could arrange for it to happen. He said that he knew her uncle because he grew up in that small town and her uncle gave him a job in his store and paid him 10 cents a day and that kept him off the streets. He also mentioned that Willie had even taught him his multiplication tables too. He credited his entire life's successes to what Uncle Willie had done in his life as a child. He was the mayor of Little Rock Arkansas and one of the first black mayors in the country at the time.

Little did Uncle Willie know who that child would grow up to be... little did he realize that by touching that child's life, he was touching many many more lives. Uncle Willie had been a rainbow in his cloud. So, with that being said, I've been thinking of all the rainbows in my cloud. My friends, my family, mentors, teachers... All the people who believed in me even when I had no clue. Its so many people who I'm sure dont realize they touched my life.. I am extremely blessed, and I thank God for that. Thank you Lord for the beautiful rainbow you created with all the different colors who represent the most important people in my life. I pray that I can be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. That's what we should all strive for... so I leave you today to ponder about your rainbow.. And even more importantly, how can you be a rainbow in someone else's cloud?