Beauty

After publishing my first book I took a couple weeks off writing and went to the Mountains of Tennessee for a vacation and my daughter’s wedding. While I was there I got to see the glory and spender of God’s creations. I saw wondrous Mountain views, waterfalls, rivers of clear water, and the peace of a deer grazing along the road. This all could not compare to God’s greatest creation, Love. I got to see the love in my daughter’s eyes as she walked down the aisle to her new husband.  We go through every day with the beauty and splendor of God all around us but we don’t always stop to notice it.  We often walk through life doing the same things over and over again not noticing the things around us. We get up Sunday morning, get dressed and go out the door to church.  We sit in the same seat, talk to the same people and sing along to the songs, and pray the same prayer. It’s all meaningless unless we open our eyes and our heart. See the beauty of the Holy Spirit moving in the singers, the pastor, the ushers and the door greeter.  We have to let the Holy Spirit move in us through our actions and our words.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (ESV)

¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.