There is Beauty All Around!

Today is a wonderful day. It's amazing how so much happiness can just hit you smack in the face at the most random times. This world is GOOD! 

I think that a lot of us forget that- including me. Recently I have found myself hearing terrible things on the news and not even flinching- of COURSE that happened, this world is going crazy. But I think it is in our human nature to focus on the bad more than counting all of the good out there. 

But today is great. Today I see my sister through a phone- a PHONE people, she is on the other side of the country and here I am staring at her in real time- and I see her love for her two little girls. She I see how she loves teaching them, how she acknowledges their growth, she adores them. 

Today I look outside and I see leaves changing colors. Isn't it amazing how God thought of the little things while this world was being created? He knew how much we would admire the changing colors of the trees- that the beauty would astonish us- so it was created. For US. Everything. It is crazy to think of everything that went into this huge extraordinary world. And He did it all for us. We can choose to make that make us seem small, undeserving, or we can choose to let that make us HUGE! He CARES about us! How cool is that! We are worth the beauty in the trees, the skies, those tender moments where our kids choose to hold our hands and smile up at us. We are worth EVERYTHING to Him. 

Today I watched a YouTube video of random people surprising a maid with 500 dollars. The woman broke down crying with no one else in the room. People can say that video is "showy" but to me, it's something that brings tears to my eyes, because people want to be GOOD! 

Everyone has that desire in their hearts. Sometimes we trap it down there, thinking that to be good means to be weak. Or to be good means that we can't get where we want in life without being stomped all over. I think it means the opposite. I think that if we choose goodness, we are choosing greatness. We are choosing to put others first. If you're not religious, it still is a great feeling to put someone else in front of you. Isn't that what gets us excited about holidays?! We can't wait for people to see what we got them- how well we know them! And if you are religious, well, Christ always put others first. He put you and me first when he made the decision to atone for our sins. He put you and me first as He was led to the cross of Calvary, where He died for every single person on this Earth. He never did one selfish act. 

So choose goodness! Choose to look at this earth and see the good in people, to see the beauty of this world. Choose to be happy!