Friday Reflections #114: Beauty
Is there anything more beautiful than the late-afternoon sun-drenched, yellow, aspen leaves fluttering in the breeze against the bright blue sky? Not to me. But here’s the trick. I must slow down, I have to be still, in order to experience the beauty. I have lived so much of my life so fast I literally didn’t notice the beauty around me. My whole life, nature has been a way of helping me slow down and see. On Monday, I went for a hike in the New Mexico Mountains that I love near our rental property home and was amazed by the beauty that I saw in the golden aspen trees. But I couldn’t fully appreciate, be absorbed by it, unless