It’s funny how I’ll sit down in the morning with a cup of coffee, excited and ready to write, and then suddenly I’m faced with the dreaded writer’s block. It’s like my mind either goes completely blank or is too cluttered for me to focus—usually the latter. Then I’ll do something as small as just stepping outside, and instantly the world around me will spark so many new thoughts and ideas. Even something as simple as seeing a flower or a pretty cloud in the sky will do it for me. It reminds me of how important it is to see beauty in the mundane—and it reminds me that God is so good, even when my circumstances are not. This all brought me to a passage in Ecclesiastes.
It reads like this: “What do people really get for all their hard work? I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can.”
Ecclesiastes 3:9-12 (NLT)
Everything can be seen as beautiful when viewed through the lens of God. This statement is not so much talking about the physical beauty of things, but rather it serves as a metaphor for God‘s perfect timing and arrangement of things. It encompasses the idea that everything has a place and a purpose in God‘s design, which is just such a beautiful thing.
My Light for My Lord 