how beautiful.

ohkay so your probably wondering what is up with all the flowers. well first the go nicely with the background. second i just really like flowers. and third, i think they are alot like us. we are fragile, just like flowers. we need God, just like flowers need rain and nutrients and sunshine. God is my sunshine :) and its God that makes me beautiful. he makes you beautiful too :) just like flowers. flowers love sunshine but they also need the rain. we will have to endure storms in our lives and rains but God placed those in our paths for a purpose, perhaps one that is bigger than ourselves. the list could go on but i think you get the idea
but there is one more thing

God created us, just as He created everything else including flowers :)

i was on the way home from the youth retreat, and i was looking out my passenger side window. we were coming home over the parkway. it was beautiful. yes, it was raining, but it was still beautiful. think about that for a moment and apply it to your life. even when we get rained on, we are still beautiful.

then i got to thinking about how beautiful the world was. its gorgeous isn't it? even when its raining, it still has this pretty glow about it and then the grass gets super green:) unless, of course, its covered up by snow :(

and then. i had a thought. one that had never crossed my mind before. imagine how beautiful the world must have been right after god created it. before sin and destruction had entered it. seeing as its god that makes us beautiful, wouldn't that be what makes the world beautiful? and id like to think that when the world was first created that it reflected all of Gods glory because he said that it was good. read Genesis 1:1-31. i never thought of it before but the world was probably so beautiful it was hard to look at. maybe. i wish i could have seen it.

but then in Genesis 3:6 sin entered the world, and since then we have continued to sin and i believe destroying the beauty of the world.

and tonight when i was doing my devotion tying to figure out what God wanted me to say tonight, i had a new thought, that once again i had never thought of. now this is something i knew like subconsciously or whatever, but never really thought about. God created everything. time is something, and therefor God created time. Before God created light and darkness and called them day and night there was no time. time didn't exist. i think this is one of those things that humans cant fully understand, but just get the gist of. no time. it didn't pass by, it didn't ebb and flow. it didn't exist. i think its kinda cool. and people that don't believe in creation by God are always like well what created God? well before time there couldn't have been any creating at least i don't think there could be, because it makes time to actually create something. so God simply is, has been and will be. that's it God just us.

that's a lot to think about so i will leave you on that note.

love
always and forever
gracie:)