nothing new

Well Friends.....

This is nothing new,

But i would like to share it with you anyway

Add to the Beauty: by Sara Groves

We come with beautiful secrets We come with purposes written on our hearts, written on our souls We come to every new morning With possibilities only we can hold, that only we can hold Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces Calling out the best of who we are

And I want to add to the beauty To tell a better story I want to shine with the light That's burning up inside

It comes in small inspirations It brings redemption to life and work (To our lives and our work) It comes in loving community It comes in helping a soul find it's worth

Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces Calling out the best of who we are And I want to add to the beauty To tell a better story I want to shine with the light That's burning up inside

This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful

This is grace, an invitation

Something i have learned lately:

I serve an Artist and an Author when i serve my God. no detail is too small, no character too minute in his creation. He uses easily overlooked and seemingly unnecessary small paint brushes to add depth andbeauty to the large brush strokes of his masterpiece.

It is certainly not the place of the brush, (or the paint or the easel for that matter) to deny the Artist pleasure by refusing to take part in the exercise of painting.

We may never feel the weight of our own potential, or even of our own achievements- but that is strictly because the weight of the paintbrush rests in the masters hand.

rather we should jump at opportunities to add to the story, the painting, the art of breathing

[especially the small ones]

purely out of our love and admiration for the creation itself.

an invitation is nothing more than a lost opportunity when it goes unanswered and

the grace we cast aside is even worse, for it damns the recipient and scorns the giver.

it mars the painting and cheapens the literature.

(good thing it's inescapable)