Over at
Holy Experience, Ann wrote about a Beauty Challenge and finding Beauty Inspiration in the everyday and mundane of our daily lives. She always speaks to my soul and so I immediately gathered up a collection of vases and went outside in search of beauty on a chilly, windy autumn day. And oh, I found beauty in the ending of a season as plants and the land prepare for the long rest of winter.
And these simple reminders grace our mantle, amidst the chaos of some house renovations, a calm vignette of God's goodness and the beauty that only He can give to us.
These things fill my gratitude list today:
- the sun regally creeping over the horizon in a burst of fire to light the morning
- clouds tinted pink and yellow by the glow of sunrise
- empty branches of leafless trees reaching up to the sky, reminding me to reach upward too
- smooth, smooth roads
- water - so much clean water to drink
- the smell of supper cooking
- books to read
- fresh color covering my walls
- the smiles of our grandchildren
- red poppies to remind me to remember
- young voices raised in choir singing of Flander's Fields
- hugs from a dear, dear friend
- book club discussions and the diversity of thinking
- a glimpse inside the thinking of a child as new math concepts and strategies are explored
- the service given by men and women in war times and through peace keeping
- pictures and the reminder of good times and new places
- fresh hot popcorn
- a favourite tea mug
- the intensity of evening skies
- the sound of geese gathering to migrate south - they seem so excited to meet up again
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