Last week I revisited an old place with a new perspective. When I visited this time last summer, all I saw was all I needed to see as I stood at the edge of the property, now overrun with tall weeds. I peered across at the dilapidated house, now crumbling even at the foundation, with missing windows, dangling doors, and a sunken ceiling. The ugliness on the outside compared very little to what ugly memories it held, so my heart was gladdened to see it decaying in the summer sun. I felt God clearly reminding me that He was doing away with old things, the old places of pain and shame in my life, and doing something new and beautiful.
This time, I took in the same scene, only the house was even more decrepit than before, the master bedroom having collapsed into the former den and only a shell of the building still there. But, even there, there in the dust, in the remaining hovel that was once a home, even there I saw beauty I’d not seen before. I saw plenty of old things, yes, but I saw new things growing all around, and that made me smile. I saw several sassafras trees and saplings and even took one home to remind me God is still doing new, beautiful things in old, ugly places. I’ll be sharing more of these beautiful things in The Beautiful Things Project, and I want YOU to join me!
Everyone has a story, and it makes all of our lives more beautiful to listen. Join me in The Beautiful Things Project where you can share YOUR beautiful things, things others may find ugly, things you once found ugly, or things re-purposed or restored. Watch the brief video below, subscribe, share, and send pictures and/or descriptions of your beautiful things. Let’s commit to seeing beauty in every single thing!
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Very inspirational post! I will definitely be more aware of the beauty in my surroundings and in the people I interact with. You are so right there is always beauty to be found 🙂 Thank you! ❤
Glory to GOD, Patti! please feel free to share any of those experiences where u notice the beauty you’d once passed up! i really plan to make this an ongoing project! 🙂
Wonderful thoughts, great post! I liked the video…
Steve Pejay
glad to hear; thanks for taking the time to read a few posts and comment…hopefully you can share some of your beautiful things. you can find other “beautiful things” under the twitter, facebook, and instagram hashtag: #thebeautifulthingsproject 🙂 🙂 Blessings!
I’m sure I can, but I don’t use those social media. However, I will continue to look in on your website here with pleasure!
Have a super day,
Steve 🙂
oh yay, haha..n sure thing! i’ll try to remember to post back here when i collage some of the things in the project. i saw this really cool site, pechakucha, i think (??), where you can have 20 images for 20 seconds each while talking about them, but if i can’t utilize the site, i’ll probably do the same in video format…maybe even 10 seconds each…i think it’ll be really cool to share! 🙂 have a great day & week, yourself!
That sounds awesome! I should say that I am on LinkedIn, Tmblr, Google t, and Stumbleupon. If you are on any of those sites, please look me up!
Have an incredible day…
Steve Pejay 🙂
cool, send your tumblr link…i rarely go on, but will find u when i do 🙂
http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=http%3A%2F%2Flightandsalt60.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F07%2F09%2Fluke-7%2F&t=Luke%207…&s=
I hope it’s in there somewhere! Does this really help?
Steve
no, but if u are on your profile page, u can copy paste that link for me or tell me your user name…maybe it’s “lightandsalt”??; no worries tho 🙂
Well, it should be “Steve Pejay” or “lightandsalt@gmx.com”…
Maybe that will help…
🙂