![]() Find someone in your life who you know to be struggling and, without expecting anything in return, be a rainbow in their cloud. Remember that you were put here to be your best self for a purpose bigger than yourself. Sometimes all we humans require is an attentive listener, a positive quote to read, or a cup of coffee made by another hand. ![]() Just because you are not expending all of your energy to get rid of the cloud or stop the rain or drag the sun out, that does not mean you are not doing enough for the person involved. Regarding the Bible quotation, “My cup runneth over,” Iyanla Vanzant said that in order to keep your cup full when giving to others, you have to make it clear that “What comes out of the cup is for y’all what’s in the cup is mine.” It’s the idea that when your cup is so full it’s overflowing, you can give the excess to others guilt-free because you already have enough. Rainbows don’t replace clouds they simply shine through a fraction of them to say “I’m here.” If you are being a rainbow, however, you aren’t doing so at the expense of yourself. People-pleasers expend themselves by giving away food even when they are still hungry themselves. But the difference between the two is that the latter demands too much of you, while the former demands just enough. Fill your own cup, that it may overflowĪnd it’s easy to confuse being a rainbow in someone else’s cloud with being a people-pleaser. Sometimes we need a rainbow in a cloud of our own. Have you ever been financially broke - and yet, almost by magic, somebody was there to lend you money? Or instead experienced the death of a loved one - while one person stayed with you patiently through your grief? These people were your rainbows.Īnd if you haven’t had an experience like this, then that is all the more reason to give someone what you wish someone would have given you in a time of crisis. To extend nourishment as much as we hoard it. Maya thought in her head at the time, This poor, ignorant woman doesn’t. Sister, you’re going to teach all over this world. You’re going to be a teacher, she told Angelou. ![]() ![]() During her five years of muteness as a child, one of Maya Angelou’s rainbows was her grandmother. That we were put here to also be of service to others. Angelou’s rainbow, and how she found her voice. We realize that we were put here for a greater purpose than to just serve ourselves. How do we be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud? We offer ourselves to them. But be a blessing to somebody that’s what I think. Somebody who may not look like you, may not call God the same name you call God-if they call God at all-you see? And may not eat the same dishes prepared the way you do, may not dance your dances, or speak your language. Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. ![]()
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