Today, I am the beholder

I'm in search of beauty.
Simple beauty, extravagant beauty, geographical beauty, heart stopping beauty, mind numbing beauty, peace giving beauty.
There are many kinds, and I am looking for it all.
Anything creating pleasure to the senses and mind is beautiful.
We have all heard it said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Perspective allows beauty.
Today I choose to look for beauty in everything I do and all I see.
Because God is good, because He makes everything good for those who love him,
and are called for his purpose...He sees beauty in all things.
I want to look at my day through His eyes.
The world view of beauty confuses me.
To be beautiful by the standards of those in the know, saddens me.
But,
to step out of that definition and into God's is liberating.
Beauty is not confined to looks.
I found beauty on the day my mom died, the moment she stepped into eternity.
Beauty takes center stage everytime I watch my granddaughters learn something new.
Beauty explodes in a storm as it rolls toward me on a spring day.
Lying quietly reading at night with my husband of 29 years sleeping beside me, beauty fills me.
Watching my daughters in early stages of marriage, with the struggles and the giggles, beauty dances all around them.
Having a son in law ask to cook with me in my kitchen, beauty smiles.
Beauty is having two sons in law volunteer to serve our country.
God created a playground of beauty for us to live on, and I desire to see as much of it as I can.
I hear beauty when I talk to my dad on the phone and through tears he talks about how much he loves Jesus.
Here is today and the chance to make a choice...see beauty in this day or muddle through yet again.
Today, I am the beholder and beauty will be in my eyes.