The Cloud That Refused to Rain
Holding Back for the Sake of the World
A lone cloud drifted across the sky, heavy with unfallen rain. Farmers begged for water, but still it held back. Only when a young girl climbed a hill and placed her small hands toward it did the cloud release a gentle shower. Scientists were baffled. Elders understood: the cloud had waited not for need, but for gratitude. Rain, they said, is not simply water—it is the sky remembering kindness.
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