You are Beautiful!

Sometimes I just can’t get over how beautiful this creation of God’s is.  This world he gave us is astounding and amazing and breathtaking!  I just spent the last half hour trudging through snow drifts all over my yard.  There is one as tall as I am.  There is one that is chest high and about 8 feet wide (by the wood pile), there are tons of drifts rolling across our backyard.  There are a few I crawled over and rolled down because I knew that if I walked over them I would more than likely get stuck when my leg crashed through them!  It is beautiful!  It is dazzling!

Then I think to the fall.  The amazing colors God sends through everything.  The tall grasses turn a reddish orange, the trees range from deep burgundy to bright yellow and every shade in between.  The crops ripen for harvest.  The air is crisp and cool.  

In summer the skies blaze blue and the air smells sweet and the sun warms your skin.  Water sparkles and invites you in.  The trees and grasses are a brilliant green.  Spring we welcome life back to the earth as the grass begins to grow and trees begin to bud and sprout tiny leaves of a soft, and somehow gentle, green.   In each season, God has painted sunrises and sunsets that call for utter silence…

I also know there are breathtaking places that I have never even seen.  Crystal waters, towering mountains, awe inspiring waterfalls….  God has given us this beautiful earth.

Don’t worry; I am getting to the point.

The other day I was gazing out my second story office window, looking out to the horizon, and I said,  

“This world you have made is so beautiful Lord!”

In my mind, I heard God’s reply.

“You are part of it.”

You are part of it.

God made this beautiful world – look around you at the beauty of his creation, and remember…  He made YOU.  Each and every one of you reading this are a part of this beautiful world that God created.  God created this world, and he created you.

You are beautiful!

God says so.