Good things come in threes

I am starting again today from scratch. I had written a very poignant and thought provoking entry last week and was just putting the finishing touches on it when my iPad erased it. Or at least I think it did. Either that or it has joined with all the single socks in the great sock migration.

Anyway, like I said, it was profound ...very profound. Lets see if I can remember some of it. It all started when I came home from walking my kids to school....

When I get home from the big drop, after I feed myself and check the globe and mail,(shameless plug for one of my main backers) I try to prioritize what I should work on that day. 

Should I:

 - attempt to finish painting one of the 10 rooms that needs painting, 

 - go outside and lose myself in the abyss of overgrown perennial trimmings, or 

 - finish off one of the "regular and everyday" chores. 

This particular day, I went with D- none of the above, and instead,crawled into bed and pulled the covers over my head. I was sinking fast into the abyss of home reno depression.

So, I decided that I needed to get my hands on some heavy duty druggage to cure me of all that ails. I checked our medicine cabinet. Unfortunately the  best I could come up with was some weird green drink with an extra dose of vitamin c and...

Super Fast Acting Laxative Tea

(Hmm...Smilin laxative?? That is the definition of oxymoron)

I knew it wasn't the pick me up I was looking for so I did the next best thing..... I cried. I cried really hard for a really long time.

As I was reflecting on my demise and my woes and my troubles and my worries and my disappointments ...(I had a lot on my mind)...

God spoke to me. I always know its him by the response it elicits in me, (and by the fact that it is usually the exact opposite of what I would have said)

 He said..."Beauty takes time".

Beauty take time...the immense truth of this statement is startling.

Mahatma Gandhi said "real beauty is my aim"; if this is my aim as well, then I must begin to change my focus and allow myself the time it takes for something truly beautiful to form. 

I believe that we as humans have great potential for beauty. What if the seeds of our beauty are lovingly planted inside of us, present from our  beginning, just waiting for the right conditions to begin to grow? Imagine the possiblilty that our beauty is limitless when nurtured in an environment of gentleness, acceptance and love.

"God is beauty" St Francis of Assisi said - and since we are carriers of the life and breath of God, we then are vessels of that beauty. Perhaps our beauty is untapped or unknown, but it is present nonetheless...waiting.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we find it not. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had a really difficult time writing this blog entry...even beyond the iPad deletions. Hopefully it is because it is a thing of true beauty and not for some other reason (like it takes me forever to organize my thoughts into something that actually makes sense).

I pray that today you will find true beauty. It may only be a glimmer of what will become, but the result is worth the effort and the wait.