The clouds were gathering over Mary, too--deep and dark, but of altogether another kind from those that enveloped Letty: no troubles are for one moment to be compared with those that come of the wrongness, even if it be not wickedness, that is our own. Some clouds rise from stagnant bogs and fens; others from the wide, clean, large ocean. But either kind, thank God, will serve the angels to come down by. In the old stories of celestial visitants the clouds do much; and it is oftenest of all down the misty slope of griefs and pains and fears, that the most powerful joy slides into the hearts of men and women and children. . George MacDonald
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Many times in life, we find ourselves in the midst of dark clouds that are heavy and oppressive. We can't see anything but gloom ahead. However, even these clouds have a purpose. They are meant to prepare us for something better.

They are meant to tell us that there is something greater coming our way, something that will lift us up. It might not be soon but it will come at some point. The real key to living a life of joy is to be prepared for it.

Source: Mary Marston

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