The other day was a breezy and grey sort of day... leaves were blowing around and it might have been a little damp out. Looking out my bedroom window at the limited view I could see across Franklin Street; it seemed like kind of a blah day. How quickly my perspective changed as I started meandering through the streets and saw the vibrant shades of yellow, orange and red that seemed even brighter against the grey sky. I realized it was actually an unusually beautiful day. It even took my breath away for a moment when I ran back onto my street and saw 3 or 4 different colors of trees all in a row right in front of my house!
There are some pieces of art that can appear pretty blah and boring from one vantage point, but if you get closer, or back off, look from the top down or from a different angle, something new and beautiful is exposed. Imagine if we never cut into a watermelon, only looked at that big green oval and never saw or tasted the bright pink inside. If we only ever sat behind the most beautiful person on the planet ... or never spoke to the wisest one, would we ever know that beauty and wisdom even existed?
Life definitely has times of miserable darkness. There are days that are just plain hard and painful, even whole seasons of life that can feel almost unbearable. I am not pretending that is not true. Just yesterday I was driving back to work from an errand to the bank with tears streaming down my face because of some situations in life that hurt like hell and I wish were different. But I also know when I step back and take a look; there is beauty and something better coming forth from even this.
There is a picture so much bigger than what we see in this moment. I can find rest in the knowledge that my God has so much more going on in the picture beyond what I can see. If I can fathom even a fragment of His great love for me, or recognize the depth of his creativity in this story He is writing it changes everything. When I look back at some of the moments in life that had seemed ugly and unnecessary, there is beauty exposed from this new perspective.
Once we can shift our gaze, get out of our chair, climb the mountain, walk outside... just change our point of view; there truly is something beautiful to be seen, even on the greyest of days.
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