Spiritual resource to share: beauty
I turned the corner into my living room and there it was......beautiful glittering snow in the sunlight. And this against a backdrop of a field of snow bordered by black and white birch trees and evergreens and a semi frozen creek.
I gasped. I have never experienced this phenomenom (or never paid attention enough), that is, precipitation falling at the same time the sun is shining. In this case, fat snowflakes were falling thick and fast, catching sunlight on every flake. Amazing.
I ran to get the camcorder. The batteries were out. I rushed about to find the digital camera. My husband had taken it. Frustrated, I realized I couldn't capture this moment on anything but my memory.
I slowed down and looked out again. I took this time to take it in. A show of beauty, just for me. It would not last, but it did not matter. I was in a natural fantasy land of rapidly falling shimmering glittery snow. It was altogether lovely.
Beauty and love have a lot in common - harmony, radiance, attraction. Listen to this juxtapositioning of beauty for love in this Bible verse from I Corinthians 13 ( New International Version - UK) and you get an idea of the gentle inspiration that I yielded to while watching it snow.
I turned the corner into my living room and there it was......beautiful glittering snow in the sunlight. And this against a backdrop of a field of snow bordered by black and white birch trees and evergreens and a semi frozen creek.
I gasped. I have never experienced this phenomenom (or never paid attention enough), that is, precipitation falling at the same time the sun is shining. In this case, fat snowflakes were falling thick and fast, catching sunlight on every flake. Amazing.
I ran to get the camcorder. The batteries were out. I rushed about to find the digital camera. My husband had taken it. Frustrated, I realized I couldn't capture this moment on anything but my memory.
I slowed down and looked out again. I took this time to take it in. A show of beauty, just for me. It would not last, but it did not matter. I was in a natural fantasy land of rapidly falling shimmering glittery snow. It was altogether lovely.
Beauty and love have a lot in common - harmony, radiance, attraction. Listen to this juxtapositioning of beauty for love in this Bible verse from I Corinthians 13 ( New International Version - UK) and you get an idea of the gentle inspiration that I yielded to while watching it snow.
(Beauty) is patient,
(beauty) is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It is not rude,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
(Beauty) ...
rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
(Beauty, like) Love, never fails.
(For those of you without snow - check out this fun site! )
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2 comments:
thank you Kim...
Eddy says, " One marvels that a friend can ever seem less than beautiful." I think our friends are like your snowflakes...each so different...each so beautiful. It is a marvel that we can be surrounded by such beauty every day and in one moment the sunshine breaks through the very clouds that are producing the "storm" and turn that exact moment, that very "blizzard" into a thing of profound loveliness.
how many times have we each discovered the real beauty of a freind in the midst of a storm.
love to you...Kate
You are a prayer warrior! I am dealing with a friend who is a recovering addict with some mental issues. This passage has kept me going these past weeks. If love (or beauty) is all of these things to our God, who am I to lose my patience; who am I to judge? Thanks for your words!
Love you much Sister!
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