Sunshine On A Cloudy Day

We're having a huge luau at the beach today for all of the students at FRC-Lima, complete with sun, surf, sports, games, music (including the Beach Boys!), and other surprises. About 100 students are expected to attend, and we've rented three big buses to take everyone to the beach at Punta Rocas, which is about 45 minutes south of Lima, and features some of the biggest surf waves in the world.

At 7:00 this morning it was cloudy and gray in Lima, but we prayed for sunshine, and by mid-morning the sun was shining bright and hot, and everybody was pumped and jacked to go to the beach for the luau.

On Sundays, however, I never pray for sunshine.

I always pray for cloudy Sundays.

I am probably the only person in Lima to pray for cloudy Sundays.

Why do I pray for cloudy Sundays?

Because the wall of the lobby in the cinema where we have FRC-Lima consists of 4 stories of plate glass. When it is sunny on Sunday, and especially in the summer, the lobby becomes an oven. We have two large, commercial-grade air conditioners in the lobby, plus three tower-style floor fans, but even all that does little to combat the sun blazing in through the floor-to-ceiling windows at the cinema.

So I pray for cloudy Sundays, so that it'll be cooler in the lobby.

By May, however, when summer begins to turn to fall in Lima, it'll probably be cloudy most Sundays.

But until then, I'm not praying for sunshine on a cloudy day.