This is a WONDERFUL time of the year! I love flowers and when they begin to bloom in the spring, I just get energized. Some years ago, I designed a web page that listed some of my “favorite things”. One of them was BEAUTY. The web server has discontinued all of the web pages including mine, and I have missed it. I thought it was so contemporary for a grandma to have a page on the web. Well now these pages are passé, and facebook, twitter etc. have taken over. I enjoy facebook, but miss the possibility of really communicating. Harvey and I have been married for 58 years, and things could get real mundane if we don’t keep our minds involved with the exciting things going on around us. Here is my effort to transpose some of the web page to a blog, with some current entries
Beauty = a quality that gives intense aesthetic pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind or senses. .Webster
I delight in the qualities of God that we are experiencing in our lives. One that I am delighted with is "Beauty". There is no other religion that can say "look at the world around you and see God in so many beautiful things He has given us to enjoy. The ones shown on this page are a few favorites of mine. Please let them encourage you to let your attention be drawn to other examples you find.
Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendorwas dressed like one of these.Luke 12:27 (NIV)
"I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth". Gen 9:13 (NIV)
"There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, and in His excellency on the clouds". Deut 33:26 (NKJ)
Sunset in Hawaii "just for us"
Sunrise outside my home town in Oklahoma
"Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun, which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat". Ps 19:2-6 (NIV)
"Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my 
presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it:" .Jer 5:22
The eyes of a child!
"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." James 1:17(NIV)
