Beauty

Everyday living in an area of the city and world that is not very asentheticlly beautiful can start to have an affect on you. You would hope that it does in a good way. When it is more than just one day a week were you encounter homeless people and families that have barely any money living in small crappy apartments, things in your heart start to change. Feelings that you have never had before come, because they come out of being neighbors with people like this. They become your friends your encounters everyday you step out your door to go anywhere. They are the amazing people of the city. God, He has made EVERYTHING beautiful. Things are beautiful because of Him. It is beautiful because Christ is in it. Everyone is His precious creation. He is the one that causes and makes things beautiful, without Him beauty would not exist. What is beauty than? What does it really look like? We have a misconception of what beautiful really is. It is in the eye of the beholder people usually say, and my eye is changing a lot. These people are beautiful because of Christ. What is truly beauty? The weak the poor, the lamb, the blind, the homeless, the orphan, the widow, the abused, the children of God, they are ALL beautiful no matter who you are, because God created it. Everyone is GOd's creation so how can something be more attractive than the other if everyone is made in the image of God? People are beautiful because we are His wonderful creation. To say somebody is ugly, unwanted, disgusting, you are basically calling God's wonderful creation disgusting and ugly. So it would be like disrespectful God's artwork, and His love.

Part of why I am here on Earth is because I want to fall more in love with Christ. Now how do I go about doing that? Do I even need to "do" anything? Or do I just simply be with Him? I like the second choice. I believe all GOd really wants is us to be with Him and we can fall more in love with Him than anything else in this world. How hard is it to be with Him, how often are we with just Him? Should it even be hard? Knowing that you will become a better person for being with Him what stops us? Becoming a better person is not for our own benefit but for others, who else would it be for? Knowing that we will be healed, why don't we hang with our Savior more often? It seems to easy to call Him Savior. Maybe spending more time with Him will allow us to have His eye of what beauty is really, and not what we think it is or what society tells us it is. What a world of difference this would make in our lives..I mean if what we encountered daily was seen from a different light, that could turn your world upside down. I want that, and I think I need it to know and understand God more.