What a beautiful world.
I was searching Flickr today by using the criteria of my newly discovered favorite poet. As I was browsing through the photos of the people I found, I started wondering how quickly I would become desensatized to beauty if I lived in a country where there was so much natural beauty surrounding me. I started thinking...the world is so beautiful, how do people not look at everything around them and see God? I thought, If I saw beautiful skies, and waterfalls, and rolling fields of green grass and wild flowers, and plunging cliffs that fade into stirring water with smoothing rocks, and miles upon miles of sky high trees.....If I saw all of that every day, how could I ever forget that there was this huge God who loved little old me? How could I ever forget that He created every aspect of life as I know it? How could I ever not be in a total state of awe as I observed the world around me?
And then I began to realize that I had become desensatized to my own naturally beautiful world right here where I sit today. There may be roads and highways that disrupt the miles upon miles of untouched land that you find in other countries, but we have beauty of our own right here in North Carolina. Carolina blue skies, warm summer days with refreshing breezes, winters just cold enough to remind you to snuggle those you love, an easy going and friendly Southern attitude that welcomes all that cross our state line....
I have realized that I can be envious of people all day long for the blessings that they have, I can wish I had this and wish I had that all I want, however, all that does for me is rob me of the opportunity to realize my own blessings...the things in my life that deserve a "stop and smell the roses" moment.
The pond and stream in my parents back yard that is full of fish and frogs and crickets and the familiar sounds of camping in the mountains.
The trees and how they cycle through change with each season, not much different from us.
My friends that love me unconditionally and make it a point to encourage me without being prompted.
The feeling of walking outside my work building and a warm breeze catching my curls and wrapping me up in the feeling of spring.
There are so many things that I have to be grateful for. There are so many feelings that I am blessed to experience every single day. I hope that no one ever thinks I've forgotten what I have to be thankful for. I hope that no one ever thinks I'm not grateful for their friendship and encouragement. And I hope that I can be one of those blessings in someone's life that reminds them that there is a God who loves them.
And then I began to realize that I had become desensatized to my own naturally beautiful world right here where I sit today. There may be roads and highways that disrupt the miles upon miles of untouched land that you find in other countries, but we have beauty of our own right here in North Carolina. Carolina blue skies, warm summer days with refreshing breezes, winters just cold enough to remind you to snuggle those you love, an easy going and friendly Southern attitude that welcomes all that cross our state line....
I have realized that I can be envious of people all day long for the blessings that they have, I can wish I had this and wish I had that all I want, however, all that does for me is rob me of the opportunity to realize my own blessings...the things in my life that deserve a "stop and smell the roses" moment.
The pond and stream in my parents back yard that is full of fish and frogs and crickets and the familiar sounds of camping in the mountains.
The trees and how they cycle through change with each season, not much different from us.
My friends that love me unconditionally and make it a point to encourage me without being prompted.
The feeling of walking outside my work building and a warm breeze catching my curls and wrapping me up in the feeling of spring.
There are so many things that I have to be grateful for. There are so many feelings that I am blessed to experience every single day. I hope that no one ever thinks I've forgotten what I have to be thankful for. I hope that no one ever thinks I'm not grateful for their friendship and encouragement. And I hope that I can be one of those blessings in someone's life that reminds them that there is a God who loves them.