Glorious

Life is glorious. Each and every day has some element of beauty, grace, love, amazement, glory to it. Sometimes it's not easy to see-- in fact, most times the extraordinary are hiding where nobody is looking. Maybe that's what makes them so extraordinary-- that those who find them had to be seeking them out. Regardless, life is a beautiful thing. The world is a beautiful place. Just ask the Creator. He's hidden elegance throughout every day, sprinkled magic into the world, and now just waits expectantly, hoping that we'll find it. Hoping that we'll look.

So learn to look. Learn to find the moment or the words or the sight that brings sunshine into the cloudiness of everyday life. Otherwise, it's much too easy to get caught up in the frustrations and the hardships and the ordinariness and the mundaneness of this world.

So learn to look. Then never let those things go. This is the world, this is God's masterpiece, don't take it for granted! Learn to love it. I did. Paradoxically, it took me feeling like I had lost everything in the world in order to learn to live like this. But maybe that's what it takes. Maybe it takes the crashing of a wave to bring the most perfect seashell to view. Maybe it takes the hardest storm to bring about that glowing double rainbow. For me, it took pain to learn what joy is.

Grasp the magic of everyday. Hold on and never, ever let it go. Keep it close to your heart, bottle it up and store it in your soul.