Beauty All Around Us

When Beliefnet user Serandipity posed the question, "Where do you see beauty in the world, and what role does it play in your life, particularly your spiritual life?" the Beliefnet community responded with praises of nature, testimonies of human kindness, portraits of innocence in children and wisdom in the aged, the ordinary experiences of everyday life, and the whole of all existence.

For many, the simple presence of an overarching dome of sky fills them with awe. We hope that you will agree with dreamsmaycome who writes that beauty is found in "The peace I feel reading other people's thoughts here."

Nature

I live in Southern New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment (La Tierra del Encantado) where God, on a daily basis, uses the skies for the most beautiful watercolor landscapes paintings one has ever experienced. Each day He paints with radiant hues of purples, hot pinks, oranges, bright yellows, and blues and then all these are reflected off the Mountains to the East. Each morning God's beauty slowly slips in through my windows, warms my face and slowly wakes me up. --Quina9

I live in a house on a lake. Every morning the sun rises directly across the lake looking out the sliding glass doorwall. I'm awestruck whenever I open the blinds and reminded of God. My 15-year-old son's bedroom faces the sunrise also, and he often calls my attention to it and we stare at it together.--Dlail

The moon at night is the closest thing I have ever seen to eternity.--peggyodom

I find beauty in nature...the mother of pearl shine on a dragonfly wing, the feel of an ocean breeze, the feel of a wave gentle washing over my feet, the feel of sand sliding through my fingers, the smell of the ocean, sandpipers running along the beach leaving their so identifiable foot prints in the sand, the children so intently building sand castles (innocently not realizing the day will not last forever), their laughter catching the breeze and carrying us to the memory of a day of our own just like this one.--B.L.O.T.S

Children

I remember once watching some little children playing by a river. And it wasn't exactly a BEAUTIFUL river, in the most conventional way. Rather polluted. But they were so filled with AWE and WONDER. One of them came over to me, eyes alight, because he had found treasure! the sweet little boy gave this treasure to me, telling me a little of its marvelous history. What was this unique prize? An old, flattened bottle top. Just made me think, it IS all in how you look at it.
--breadandbutterfly

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