Advent Beauty: What a Non-Traditional Advent Calendar Taught Me About the Season
How early do you start preparing for Advent? Not Christmas, but Advent, the time of preparation before Christmas. I got my first reminder with a…
Beauty
Beauty, when unadorned, is adorned the most. — St. Jerome
Examine your environment, and thank God for the natural beauty that He gives us. What natural element from God are you most grateful for?
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. — Albert Einstein
Greet the next difficult moment you face with a deep breath and a smile.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. — Albert Einstein
Stop for a moment right now and contemplate where in your life have you seen kindness, beauty and truth. Take note of how you feel…
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl
Today, try to spend less time looking in the mirror and prepping your “look.” Instead, concentrate on the beauty you have because God made you.
Homogenized Beauty
“If everybody looked the same, we’d get tired of looking at each other,” sang Groove Armada. Are we in danger of that happening? Photographer Zed…
Beauty v Truth
Ok, look at this ad quickly… Looks normal right? Yeah, these aren’t human beings, they are Barbie dolls. Thanks to the blog Sociological Images, for…
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. — Albert Einstein”
Fast from rushing through your day without noticing the beauty around you. Pray that God might show you something beautiful that you hadn’t noticed before.…
“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”
Take something you see every day and reflect on it’s beauty.
Thursday of the Second Week of Lent
Return to the Lent calendar. Lent Quotable I have had prayers answered — most strangely so sometimes — but I think our heavenly Father’s loving-kindness…
