Beauty – Day 31

This morning, I am really enjoying watching the snow fall.  While I was outside, it was as if it was wrapping me up.  To me, it is beautiful.  No, I am not a cold weather person, but I am enjoying the snow.  But it is really beautiful because I have warm clothes to wear when I have to go outside.  It is beautiful because I can watch it from my window inside a warm home.  It is beautiful because while it covers the yard, I do not have to travel anywhere today.  

When I was growing up, my Grandpa (Mitchell) hated snow.  We were not allowed to talk about it or get excited about it when we were around him.  He absolutely detested snow and any celebration was banned.  But there was a reason.  Grandpa worked for the State.  And when it snowed, he had to spend extra hours out in the snow clearing roads and pathways for people.  Snow meant little to no sleep for days and long unbearable hours in equipment he had to work on and with.  Snow was not beautiful to him.

It reminded me of how beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.  And it also reminded me how God beholds us and calls us his beloved.  We are beautiful in his sight.  We are loved by our Creator.  We may not always act beautiful or do beautiful things, but we are beautiful to him because we are his.  How amazing is it to know you are beheld and adored!  You are his workmanship.  May we see ourselves as God sees us today.  And that IS beautiful!