Choose to See Beauty

 

Choose to see beauty.

It is as simple as noticing the morning's slanted light streaming into your eastern window. The range of tones shift by the minute as the sun rises. It is a beauty we get every single day. Even amidst clouds. Sometimes it is even more beautiful with light reflecting off and through the clouds.

All it takes is your attention. Seems like a very easy thing, yet it is not. These days our attention is extremely valuable and it is being sought by much louder things of the world. And it is distracting and difficult to escape. Our attention means money for companies. Our attention is for sale. Meanwhile, the quiet beauty does slowly and patiently what it was made to do.

Often the most beautiful things take time and require patience of us. But that need crisscrosses with the mentality we possess that we need it now. We want to buy or see that thing immediately. We want an instant friend without any depth. These things buy our happiness for a short period and then we grow bored or ready to cast it aside and do it all again. Unwilling we are to let something come in its time. 

When we allow ourselves to sit quiet. Just sit there and muse. Or don't muse. Let your voice quiet down. Let the noise of the world fall to the background. The voices of others telling you what you should be and what you should do. Let God speak into the quiet spaces. God gives us our gifts and direction, but we need to listen to hear it above the voices that shout for us to follow. Instead of following the crowd, it takes much more effort to listen to what God is directing and to follow Him.