finding beauty

It’s been one of my goals over the past six months to find beauty.

It’s easy to be critical.

To make fun of other people’s actions. Things. Looks.

Harder to find beauty everywhere.

Twitter actually made me aware of this. There are two pastors that I follow – they are both extremes. One is negative, judgmental and finds beauty only in the work of his own hands. (And it’s heartbreaking.)

The other finds beauty everywhere. He takes pictures of art, people, his kids – and brags about them. He tells people what stirs his heart to be more like God. (And it’s inspiring.)

So watching them made me very aware of my heart. And it challenged me to think about how I not only talk about, but also perceive the world.

Because there is beauty everywhere.

And when I begin to understand and embrace that, I get to partake a little in the divine. To experience life like I was designed to experience it. To embrace the diversity of a God so much bigger than myself.

And it’s beautiful.