This morning as i watched the sun slowly rise over the Tennessee mountain tops, God gave me a really cool thought.

Well this mornings sunrise was beautiful as are all of them, however I have seen much more beauty and color in others.Josh came up stairs to say good bye as he was about to head off to work.He asked, ” how was the sunrise this morning?” I told him it was beautiful but a little plain. right then as the word plain came out of my mouth it was like time stopped and God took me on a little journey in thought.

I absolutely LOVE the sun rising and setting, I believe that in those few moments at the beginning and end of each day He reveals just a glimps of His beauty to us all through the sun. Some mornings and evenings the sky is clear as far as the eye can see with out a blemish of a cloud in sight. And then there are times where the sky is covered with clouds with only a few openings of the clear blue. Each morning I find my self thinking of the clouds as the problem, they are going to mess up something AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL that will only last but minutes. Yet every morning with the clouds blocking my view of the sky, the sun slowly wakes up and rises over the hill tops. As the light begins to warm the earth and it’s bright light hits the clouds, it begins to soak them in the most richest colors. The depths of each cloud is known and changing with every second. it is like a wild fire of colors racing across the sky , consuming everything in sight.The clouds are what make us aware of the sun’s true beauty and power. We can not see the sun for it is far to magnificent for our eyes to take in.The sun is seen by it’s moving in and through the clouds , allowing the dull cloud to reflect it’s beauty and power in a way that we can see. In that same way God uses us to reflect His power and beauty, it is through our ugliness that God’s AMAZING Beauty is seen. If we were all perfect and without need as God is, His beauty and wonder would go unnoticed and unneeded. But it is our short comings, weakness, and failures as human beings that reflect God’s beauty, our lack welcomes God and His beauty and His power. Beauty without ugliness can not be seen in it’s true light.

Just a thought
~C