The Darkest Cloud

A man once walked down the street with a dark cloud hanging over him all of the time. It was the dark cloud of his past that hung ominously over him still. 'Why am I so down hearted?' he asked himself. 'How long will this dark cloud of my old life still hang over my head and bring me down all the time?' Then the Dark Cloud of his past high above him answered him and said, 'I might be the dark memories of the past hanging like a gloomy grey cloud above your head,' said he, 'But if you look closely, you will find that I still have a silver lining too.' Then he looked up and surely when he looked closely enough, he could see a small bright silver lining shining all about the dark cloud high above him. 'And what is that thin silver lining that you have?' he asked of the dark one in the sky. 'The silver lining that awaits us all is the promise of a brighter future still ahead.' Said the Dark Cloud with assurance to the man way below. The man smiled for the first time in a long while. The future seemed brighter than the past after all. And every dark cloud it seems has a silver lining too.