How Beautiful Your Songs Of Praise

A beautiful song to listen to...


 ...while you browse through these photos of beautiful birds and blooms we saw on our recent anniversary trip.

 

 

 

Drunk With Beauty

My heart is drunk with the beauty around me.

Every day my eyes search God's creation

for the beautiful, the amazing, the incredible.

Every morning I am motivated by the thought

of what beauty I will see that day.

The intoxicating wine of the stunning loveliness

of color and form with light and shadow

is overwhelming at times...

 

Thankfully, I have a camera to capture

some of those moments!

 

 

There are times when I catch an intoxicating glimpse

of the beauty of the Lord-

His holiness and power, His love and gentleness.

Oh, that I would search for that every day

as I do in His creation around me.

Oh, that it would be a motivation in my life,

in my service for Him!

"The earth in summer is brimming with beauty, beauty of such magnificence and variety and unembarrassed lavishness, ripe beauty, lush beauty, beauty given to us with such generosity and abundance it is almost scandalous.

Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful...Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses (for our God has seen fit to arrange for this). Nature at the height of its glory shouts, Beauty is essential! revealing that Beauty is the essence of God. The whole world is full of his glory."
                                                                               - John & Stasi Eldredge, “Captivating”

...The whole earth is full of His glory. (Isaiah 6:3b)



For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!...(Zacharias 9:17a)

 ...I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord, and because of the words of his holiness.(Jeremiah 23:9b)

Simple Beauty

Please permit me to indulge in more beauty. There's too much of it around me to limit it to just one post (Feb)! Today, when we went to the house of a church member to hold a children's meeting, I walked around taking snapshots of things that struck me as having a "simple beauty". Is that the right way to describe it? I'm not sure because, to me, if something is beautiful, it is amazingly and strikingly so, not just "simple"! However you want to think of it, let me share with you three pictures that I took there and let you make your own comments since not everyone sees things with the same eyes. But, please, do take time to notice the beauties around you today. And tomorrow. And every day. "Whatsoever things are lovely..."