I didn't know them.
I
had never seen them before in my life, but I was so glad they were there. As if we had intended to meet, they
drove up just in front of me. They
parked on the side of the road just like me and they exited their car. I waited just another minute to make
sure their purpose was the same as my own.
Yes, it was. I could tell as the gentleman exited his car, leaned slow
and soft against the door and took it all in.
Beauty, sometimes we choose it.
The
woman then exited the car. Now it
seemed it was a party and I quickly opened my door. I listened as if I was stealing the moment as the
husband described it for her.
“You
see hon, I drove passed it
yesterday, can you believe we have
been missing this for twenty years??”
I
helped my little girl out of the car.
I grabbed my camera. The
wife immediately noticed us. “You
were smart to bring your camera!!”
She
Every
year about this time, Ava and I steal up here to grab an eyeful of beauty. How I wish every day I did the same.
My
children get up on any given school day and I remind them,
“Choose your attitude.”
An
hour or two later and confronted with hundreds of emails my words echo
back. Choose… choose…….choose
The
amazing glorious gift we were given at the beginning of time, CHOICE
Life
is an overwhelming impossibly grand series of choices. Oh, there are the biggees, the ones
about school and marriage and home and work, but in between all those milestones there are a million
more, daily daunting choices that when added up equal life.
I
have cautioned as long as I have been a mother to “choose well.”
I
say it as they leave to play with friends, as they take a difficult test or
face an infuriating trial.
But
of late, inspired by nothing more than a soap commercial, I have come to realize
the choice really boils down to two.
We
can choose ugly or we can choose
BEAUTIFUL.
Beautiful is the big giant cupcake that rests below the frosting and creates
the sweetness of life.
In
everything, in every moment, we can choose beautiful.
When we sense the choke hold of the urgent, can we choose to feel His fingertips guiding us and
holding firm?
In
the face of life, do we scream UNFAIR, or do we listen to the still small voice
that reminds His ways are not our ways?
Do
we look in the mirror or step on the scale to define our worth, or do we look
at the cross and whisper unworthy?
Do
we seek the wisdom of the Word or do we listen to the constant noise of
distraction, discouragement and disaster?
Do
we look at our children emptied by the drain of competition and remind them
they are more than enough through Christ Jesus?
Do
we slam angry fists when tears flow or do we say thank you to Him for the weeping; resting in the promise that joy will come with the morning?
Do
we run and chase with the fad of fashion or the promise of miracles , or do we
rest in the creation of us by the Miracle worker?
Do we recognize our weaknesses were
divinely designed to complement His strengths?
Do
we lose ourselves in today and forget to cast our eyes on the eternal?
Do
we insist on bouquets of happiness and ease or do we find contentment in dandelions
and divine?
Do we
close our eyes from the ugly that paints the world or do we open them and
choose beautiful?
As
you see your son or daughter, your grandchild or niece so it is that He sees us Beloved. Not only does He see
us; He chose us and called us masterpiece. We work in the tableau of His design to reveal the color of
His blood and the depth of His mercy.
Choose
Beautiful Beloved for He has chosen you.
Do
not be conformed by this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and
acceptable and perfect. Romans
12:2
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