Hello all,

Thank you for visiting my page again. Sorry I’ve been gone for a while. I am a college student, so to say the least, it’s been a bit rough. Nonetheless, I’m back again with something new. Today, as the title suggests is about seeing life for its beauty.

Recently, I posted the following statement,“My road is not for everyone. Sometimes it leaves you alone. This is just because you’re alone, doesn’t mean you’re lonely.” This statement is a response to the never-ending questions about my dating life, but it sparked a question in me. Am I happy with where I am? By all definitions of the early 20s, am I living? I have no boyfriend. I don’t party much. I’m not beat to the gods on a daily basis. I have few Instagram followers and don’t respond to DMs like that. I have all of five super close friends. My text messages are about as dry as the Sahara Dessert. Then I noticed, the question is not am I living, but rather, by whose definition am I living. No, I’m not living as the movies or stereotypical definitions would define my life to be lived, but I am living my own definition, a definition of beauty.

In the culture that we live in, so heavily populated with stereotypes and false definitions of self worth, that we’ve gotten away from the true beauty of honest self worth. Which brings up the question, are we seeing it [life] for anything less than beautiful? As we’ve established before, my life doesn’t have those things that people would expect, but my life is still beautiful. My definition of how my life should be lived is defined by my ability to grow and expand both my knowledge and my opportunities. Even though those opportunities aren’t in the areas that people would like for them to be in, I am growing and learning concerning my schooling, my place in God, what I can bring to the people around me, and how I plan to live my life in the future. To me that is beautiful.

In Matthew 14, the Bible talks about one of the most famous stories of Jesus, when Peter walked on water. The short story version essentially says that Peter saw a man, Jesus, walking on the water in the distance. He asked the man if hew was Jesus, and if so to call him out on the water. Jesus called him out and he walked out on the water. When he realized what he was doing, he began to sink as he shifted his focus off of Jesus. Then after asking for his help, Jesus took Peter and they walked together. The moral of this story is to keep your eyes on Jesus. The pointI’m trying to make is that there was beauty in Peter’s walk. The boat was safe, and he did begin to sink while he was out there, but Peter walked on water.

The same is in our lives. We may stumble or go against the grain, in stepping out and living our lives the way we want to, but there is beauty in it. Whether you’re living in a suburban apartment with three kids and going to school or in a penthouse suite as a stay at home dad, in God, your life is beautiful. So the moral of my story is, I’m seeing the beauty in my life, all of it. Are you?

Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you; plans to give you a hope and a future.”

Ecclesiastes 3:11 “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.