Beautiful Things for Today

I took this beautiful walk in Palm Desert this past week and these are the beautiful things for today. While the nation is under quarantine I have the complete joy and blessing of being in a beautiful place. Life does not feel any different today than it did a month ago. Having already had habits of being home, kids home-schooling, and being somewhat of a food hoarder anyway has had no ill-affect on our family.  I have been dong lots of walking. On this particular walk I decided that rather than just walk past all the beautiful gardens and flowers I would actually stop and study them.

I have never been that person who can identify the flowers. My sister Marantha and my close friend Amanda can identify any plant I have ever come across. As I sit in the morning cool air, a hummingbird close by, and the birds all singing their own tunes I reflect on yesterday's walk and it's beauty. In times of uncertainty, a deadly virus and economically hard times I find I can weather it all by looking for the beautiful things for today.

While I was walking and snapping pictures of so many beautiful flowers. This song came onto my Pandora. I just started crying. Because the words are amazing to the culture of our world. Take a moment to listen. Close your eyes and listen to the words.

Beautiful Things by Gunger

https://youtu.be/1spkhp41ig4

After listening and continuing my walk I just felt this overwhelming sense of peace.  A crisis gives us time to reflect and we have a choice. To wallow in fear and uncertainty or to look at what is in front of us and the beautiful things. Nature, and the beautiful humans in our lives.  Enjoy the photos below from a lovely walk. 

Feel So Beautiful

Some-days I don't feel so beautiful.  I get to bed a little to late.  My sleep a little restless. My hair crazy and out of control.  The dishes stacked in the sink, the dirty pan left over from last night.  The laundry piled up and about 30 projects waiting to be completed. All external in nature.

I stumble this morning half awake to make coffee.  Emily out the door early for work. David out earlier than her for an early morning meeting at the hospital.  Boys wandering, laughing giggling and building new lego designs, or drawing more pictures.  Some-days I don't feel so beautiful.  All external in nature.

I start making lunches, tidying just a bit and decide it's going to be a lovely and beautiful day regardless of the externals of nature. It's life in these parts. In every corner of my home there is life. Some times a bit discombobulated.  I grab my coffee and decide to start those first sips outside. Next to the beautiful flowers Eric planted last summer.  And then, I see it and I get it.

This one flower stood out.  As if to be saying, "Yes, Elizabeth we all have days when we don't feel so beautiful." It's pedals a little mangled. I am sure from boys and dogs running through the flower beds. Others, like this flower, not yet opened or ready for the day, yet this one flower was opened, awake and beautiful to me.  Stunning!  I smiled, grabbed my phone and took this picture.  A deep message to my heart.  Does our father look down on us in the same way I see this flower?  Tattered around the edges, up earlier than we would like. Does he look at us at me,, much like this one single flower and think "stunning" she is?  

Beautiful He makes us.  Looking at our discombobulations and I am know He smiles at His creation, at me and at you.  The beauty He sees is not about the externals. He see me and you as beautiful.  Why?  He made us in His image.  Even with the crazy hair, the tattered edges His beauty within stems out. Much like this lovely single flower.  My gift from heaven, as a reminder that even if the externals do not looks so lovely, there is beauty in each of us, through the eyes of our maker. 

Happy Wednesday dear friends, love elizabeth who, just for a moment, did not feel so beautiful.

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