As Ann Voskamp says,
Why God? Why so much beauty?
Why the snow-capped mountains playing with the clouds?
Why the tiny purple violets sprinkling those mountains where people will probably never even see them?
Why the red on the cardinal? The orange of the oriole?
Why the blue egg of the robin?
The teal of the lake?
The yellow of the field of sunflowers, turning their heads with the sun?
The pink of the sunset?
You love us! You love us! You love us!
Extravagantly!
Help us when we can't see. Forgive us when we refuse to see.
Thank You for loving us. We want to turn our faces to You.
We want to be used by You to open others' eyes.
We pray for Your beauty to touch Pastor Saeed in his prison.
We pray for the oppressed child in Iraq to hold onto the hope of beauty.
We pray for the eyes of the traumatized vet to be opened to Your gifts.
We pray for those searching for beauty after the floods, from under the earthquake rubble, in the new home after a PCS.
We pray for the heart of our soldier--to be as tough as it needs to be while not shutting out the lovely, the life-giving.
We pray for our leaders to be able to point towards hope,
from the Chief of Chaplain's office
to the battalion commander
to the platoon sergeant
to the fresh new soldier far from home.
There is no limit to Your power to make all things new and beautiful.
We trust in that this day.
Amen!
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