This phrase was authored by John Milton in his 1634 work  Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle.   I see ye visibly, and now believe That he, the Supreme Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were  To keep my life and honour unassailed.  Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud  Turn forth her silver lining on the night?  I did not err; there does a sable cloud  Turn forth her silver lining on the night,  And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. The phrase morphed throughout the years to the one we use today. Read about its evolution here .  One afternoon I was driving and spotted the silver lining.  So I had to stop and capture it! 

Dang it.  I thought about this post all day long yesterday and then forgot to post it!  Oy. Today I am grateful for things that happen that, despite the negative circumstances surrounding them, are the silver linings to the clouds of the day or of the week!  Let me explain.  Today my husband went to his car to leave for work and I heard him trying to start the car.  It wasn't starting.  It was dead.  Not the best way to start the day BUT there is a silver lining!  The car died in our garage out of the way of anyone!  It didn't die in the middle of rush hour traffic where people would be honking at him and flipping him off (because of course anyone who has broken down in the middle of traffic plans for it to happen then because they like being honked at and flipped off...or not), it didn't die in some out of the way inconvenient place.  It died in our garage.  My friends, that is a silver lining and I am grateful for those.