I absolutely love road trips. It is one of the tried and true ways I relieve the stress that accumulates in my life.   My thoughts can roam where I please while my hands, memory, and active thinking guides my car to the final destination.

Some days my road trips are merely to another city 20 miles up the road.  Other trips take me 5 hours away from home.  During these adventures, I have many fleeting thoughts and ideas.   One such thought occurred to me one bright, summer day last year.  I had decided to take the hill country (in Texas) back home.  As I was descending another hill as I proceed north from central Texas, I drove through the shadow of a cloud.

I couldn’t help but smile as the sunlight dimmed and the landscape around me took on a darker contrast.  How many people actually consider driving through shadows of objects hundreds of feet above?  Each could, very unique, casts an equally unique shadow.  And isn’t it amazing to drive through the shadow of water?  Yes, it is in a different form but it is still composed of water and small particles of dust sprinkled above in the sky like giant cotton balls.

So the next time you are meandering down a country highway on a bright day, look to the horizon. You might just get the opportunity to drive through a puffy, cotton ball’s shadow.