Beauty

 Stepping out of my box of agenda's and to-do lists I walked outside to take-in the view that surrounds me.  Day in and day out I walk past the same things sometimes taking notice of them and other times never 'seeing' them because of my hurriedness.  So to grab my camera and just snap shots for no other reason than to capture their beauty is refreshing and nourishing to my soul.  God has created beauty, true beauty for us to behold.

 Our pear tree has a bunch of baby pears ballooning all over the tree.

My single greatest pleasure these past few weeks has been a blue bird that nested in our bird house for the first time ever!  We have had this vacant bird house for years, but this year HE came.  Oh, he is so beautiful!  He is so blue, it is like a tropical fish blue.  His feathers have a purple undertone to them and he takes my breath away every time he sweeps by.








Also on our front porch a family of robins raised their little family on top of my wreath.

For The Beauty Of The Earth

For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies,
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful hymn of praise.

For the beauty of each hour
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale, and tree and flower,
Sun and moon and stars of light,
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful hymn of praise.

For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth, and friends above,
Pleasures pure and undefiled,
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful hymn of praise.

For each perfect gift of thine,
To our race so freely given,
Graces human and divine,
Flowers of earth and buds of heaven,
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful hymn of praise.

For thy Church which evermore
Lifteth holy hands above,
Offering up on every shore
Her pure sacrifice of love,
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful hymn of praise.

Coram Deo,
E.W.