beauty

Stopped in Their Tracks

I shared these pictures on Twitter last night, but I thought they were worth sharing again. I apologize in advance for the quality of the photos…all I had on me was my (apparently antiquated) iPhone 4.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the sky quite like this. It was grey all day yesterday. Completely dreary, with a light mist on and off all day long. Truly a blah day. But, just around sunset, the sun decided to try to come out. We were in the Target parking lot at the time, and we were amazed by how golden the sky became. Like, hurts your eyes golden. And then I turned around to get my phone, and saw a full rainbow behind me. And not just a rainbow, but, if I looked really hard, a double rainbow!

It was at that point that I realized that everyone in the parking lot had stopped in their tracks, and was either looking at the sunset, or the rainbow, or was spinning in circles like me to see both. And they continued to stare as the gold sunset mellowed out a bit, and turned out to be one of the most beautiful sunsets I’ve ever seen!

It was a truly surreal moment. The way the whole parking lot seemed to be glowing, the people stopping, and reaching for phones to capture the moment, the shouts of children as they noticed the rainbow…I’m glad we needed to stop at Target so we were present for such a beautiful display of God’s artwork!

Nail Polish

It’s been years since I last painted my fingernails. I’m not very good at doing it…it always ends up smudgy and uneven…and things like washing dishes tends to make polish chip so fast that it’s just not worth the time it takes to apply it. But I saw this color in the store, and it made me so happy to look at it that I decided to give painting my nails another try. It’s a textured polish, so smudges and unevenness aren’t as much of an issue, and even though I know it’s a just a matter of time until it starts chipping, until then, I get to look at this very pretty color. Such an easy way to brighten up my day!

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God Likes Beautiful Things

I saw a cardinal in our backyard the other day (bird, not baseball player), and I was struck by how beautiful its bright red feathers looked against the green of the grass and trees outside. That got me remembering a conversation I had with Turkey a few years ago, in the Fall, when he was about four years old…

We were in the car, probably going to Target or something, and we were talking about how beautiful the trees looked with all of their different colored leaves. He was wondering why leaves change color–not in a scientific way, more of a philosophical way–and he immediately answered his own question: “Because God likes beautiful things!”

It sounds cute and sweet, but it’s also so very true. You only have to look around to realize how much God loves beauty–nature is full of it! Flowers, trees, birds–there is beauty all around us, but sometimes, it takes a four-year-old’s point of view to remind us of it!