On Sunday, Alison Kennedy (a missionary from our church) was home from China and came to speak.  Preaching is not something she normally does but she shared the wisdom God had placed on her heart so beautifully and so faithfully.

One of the most powerful parts was when she showed a photograph of a pool of water where all the sewage goes.  Next to it were some beautiful yellow flowers.  She asked us “Which part of the picture are your eyes most drawn to?”  Everyone agreed that they were most drawn to the lovely flowers.  She shared how interesting it is that we are immediately drawn to the beauty in the picture.

She said this…”We need to have our eyes wide open, to ask God to see beauty where we wouldn’t normally look, because even in the darkest places there is beauty to be found.”  What an incredibly wise and profound statement.

I’m definitely going to make this my prayer from now on.  Maybe you feel the same :).