I've been challenged lately to see the beauty that this world has to offer. Not to see the beauty so that I'll fall in love with this world, but rather to see the beauty and then immediately praise God for His amazingness.
I am finding that it is easy in some areas to find beautiful things. Some of the examples are listed below:
I am finding that it is easy in some areas to find beautiful things. Some of the examples are listed below:
~An incredibly large sun setting as I drove home (several of these) 
~Brilliant clouds
~Brilliant clouds
~Amazing lightning storms (You can't beat a good Arkansas storm!)
~Stinking cool but weird animals (gotta love some nature shows! Check out the male angler fish - weird!) Go here and scroll down and read about the male. It's CRAZY!
~Microwaving Ivory Soap in the Microwave! It's NUTS!
~Loving family
~Watching people who are passionate about what they do
~Being able to go serve Christ by being helpful to others
~Watching people who are passionate about what they do
~Being able to go serve Christ by being helpful to others
~Laughing with friends when we scare the crap out of ourselves! (CB you know what I mean!)
~People that work hard (my dad is an example - he works so hard and doesn't really have to be asked, he just does.)
I could continue to list things, but these are the ones that have been so prevelant to me lately. I'm also finding that in other areas it is not so easy to see beauty. Of course some of those areas would be seeing suffering, poverty, violence, evil, racism - that's never easy to see. However, the place where I'm finding myself struggle to see beauty the most is in other people. I know this is because of sin in my life, but sometimes I struggle so much. I should see beauty in others, but I am so focused on myself most of the time that it inhibits me from seeing their beauty. How awful! This sin that hinders me from seeing their beauty and beauty in other places in the world affects my relationships and even affects my relationship with God. My prayer is that as I am opening myself up to see the beauty of this world that I will take the focus off of myself and be able to see what beauty lies in the people around me instead of seeing the specks in their eyes and ignoring the plank in mine.
Peace love and chicken grease! :)
I could continue to list things, but these are the ones that have been so prevelant to me lately. I'm also finding that in other areas it is not so easy to see beauty. Of course some of those areas would be seeing suffering, poverty, violence, evil, racism - that's never easy to see. However, the place where I'm finding myself struggle to see beauty the most is in other people. I know this is because of sin in my life, but sometimes I struggle so much. I should see beauty in others, but I am so focused on myself most of the time that it inhibits me from seeing their beauty. How awful! This sin that hinders me from seeing their beauty and beauty in other places in the world affects my relationships and even affects my relationship with God. My prayer is that as I am opening myself up to see the beauty of this world that I will take the focus off of myself and be able to see what beauty lies in the people around me instead of seeing the specks in their eyes and ignoring the plank in mine.
Peace love and chicken grease! :)
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