Beauty

This morning started dark and dreary, with rain falling ever so silently. While working at my computer, I heard that infamous sound of rain pouring down on the house and trees. When I looked outside, I was astonished at the sight. It was not just raining hard, and it was not sleeting either. It was as if it was rain plus huge snowflakes that were too wet to be seen as snowflakes anymore, but not quite frozen enough to be sleet.

Shortly after that, I looked outside again, only to be even further amazed. Snowflakes the size of golf balls were falling, and falling quickly and heavily. I tried taking video of it, but my camera did the sight no justice. Standing there, watching the snow, I could not help but be in awe of the beauty of this happening. Thoughts of everyone's anger toward the snow flooded my mind and I thought, "How can anyone not think this is beautiful?"

There are so many things in this world that are seen are horrible, ugly, pointless, time wasting, strenuous, and worthy of complaining about, amongst other things. Yet, the things or happenings that are talked about as such tend to be the things God has placed here for beauty and for us to enjoy. How foolish can we really be?