What beauty is waiting for you to discover it?

What beauty is waiting for you to discover it? What wonderful quality do you have that you overlook focused on what you don't have? What experience is showing up to remind you to follow your heart today and take in all that life has to offer. Not everyone has a near death experience that serves as a wake up call. Most of us move through life looking at the latest thing that we are sure are going to make us happy. All the time missing the wonders that surround us in people, places, and things. When was the last time that you just stopped for a minute and took it all in? You did nothing but just look, feel, experience what life was showing you? Stop right now! Just for one minute and look around and see what you see, feel, and what you notice.  

Day 36: Sunrise, take your gratitude journal on a field trip. Set an intention to write down everything you are thankful for today as it happens. What impact does this have on your day?

I love how this work is living itself out in me. On Saturday, I had this deep desire to go to Seahurst Park near our home and take pictures. I wanted to be near the ocean again and I wanted to see what nature had to offer in the form of miracles. I was not disappointed. It was amazing and while looking through the lens of the camera I was forced to take the in the beauty that surrounds me everyday. With each picture I was taking in another snap shot of the amazing gift that nature has for us each day.

The day started with a most beautiful sunrise I was in the office writing and I could feel it calling me. So I got up opened the front door and took it in. Not only did I take a picture of it, I just stood there and enjoyed the moment. There was only one of that precise moments and I wanted to enjoy it rather than looking back and saying oh, I wished I had slowed down and enjoyed the sunrise this morning. As the sun began to shine with all of it brilliance I went out again, just to see what was new and different. I was not disappointed. The Sun shinning through the leaves as they begin to change color, and the juxtaposition between the deep green of the evergreens and the oranges of the trees as they change hue. Wow, I could have missed that miracle had I stayed inside.

Later that day my beloved and I took a walk in Seahurst Park and it was one miracle after another. The way the roots of one tree was wrapping itself around the stump of a tree that was no longer there as if hugging it, and thanking it for its strength and beauty. The way the ivy grew up the and circled around the trunk of a tree as if saying I love you. The way the fern's danced in the wind and the way the light gleaned through the leaves and touched the foliage below. One great dance of nature is reminding me that we are all interconnected, part of one great whole.

The way that the end of one life experience is the beginning of another. The way it fades into itself as if to say. Take it easy you can't get it wrong. It is all just a journey and you make it up as you go along, living each moment to the fullest. I might have missed all of that had I decided not to listen to the call of my heart. Take some time today and listen to your heart, go where it leads you!

I love you,

Rev Allen