Beauty

Have you found yourself confused by the worlds view of beauty?? I think that is because no one is ever really happy with they way they are.... the gossip magazines are criticizing one celebrity because they are too fat and in the same pages are concerned another one is too thin. No one seems to know where to draw the line. I've been listening to Amy Grant's new album and one of the songs says " You're lovely even with your scars".. what powerful words that we don't hear often enough. Most times we hear..you could be beautiful "if"... scars are part of who we are... just like wrinkles and gray hair... and only God can take those scars and see something beautiful. Now if we can just learn to see ourselves as God sees us, we'd all be better off. As we start this journey, remember... God created us, know us, and loves us even with our scars. Today I will pray that our scars will become part of this framework of a healthy body and healthy mind..and be beautiful to us as well.

Clean Laundry

Today was laundry day... a lot of time in our lives is spent doing laundry...getting our dirty clothes clean and ready to wear again.   After all - who wants to wear dirty clothes??  They are stiff and grungy and smell...it's so much nicer to put on clothes that are fresh and clean.  So why do we not want our hearts to be clean as well??   Proverbs 20:9 says  Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin?"  Maybe we should be just as worried about cleaning our hearts as regularly as we clean our clothes.  We will never be without sin, but The Lord has given us the blood of his son that we may washed clean white as snow.... We should be sure to come before The Lord for forgiveness of our sins so that our hearts are regularly washed clean.   

Focusing

Focusing....

Many times we spend so much time focusing on the wrong things. As a photographer, I have to know exactly what my focus point is... this area will be sharp while what is around it will start to blur out... when we are focusing on the negative things in our life, we are blurring the positive things we should be seeing and we then become discouraged. Let's make the POSITIVE things our focus point this week... and start blurring out the negative. We can do this. Our God made us in his image... he gives us what we lack. A healthy body is a healthy temple to him.

"Turn your eyes upon Jesus... look full in his wonderful face....
And the things of this earth... will grow strangely dim...
in the light of his glory and grace."