I am a beauty seeker. Seeking makes it possible to be a beauty finder. Seek and you will find.
(A flower yet to open.)
I like to wander and admire. It’s impossible not to admire. My dad’s farm, my mom’s garden, my grandma’s flowers, our own yard. Being in the midst of the beauty, face to face with it, is comfortable. It makes me happy. I feel close to Him, surrounded by His work. I am amazed.
(A caterpillar into a butterfly.)
When you are open and looking and searching, you realize things don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful. You start to see the beauty in the imperfect. You start to find beauty in the messy. You are gifted a change in your perspective. Because God is good. Because He does not make mistakes. Because He makes it ALL beautiful.
(Blooms turned to seed.)
Everything beautiful begins with God. Ecclesiastes 3:11
(The beginning of a new day.)
It doesn’t take long, just take a moment to look around. I am sure you already see something. Something beautiful made by Him. I challenge you today, this week, this month, to be a beauty seeker. Look around and take notice of all the beautiful things that began with Him. Create a post, use words or images, and link up to share with us your beauty finds. This is a fun way for the entire (in)courage community to share together, not just those doing a review post this month.
(A family.)
This Beauty Seeker link-up will be open all month. Take time to seek. Let your heart be open to see. Come back and share at any time. Some of you are hosting a review this month and have story posts, that link-up will be live on July 10th.
(Engaged. Beginning of life together.)
The new Redeemed Outdoor line by DaySpring, encourages us to remember He has made everything beautiful. Beautiful begins with God. It is a wonderful collection to add something special to your outdoor decor.
Everything beautiful begins with God.
Everything.
Join the Beauty Seeker link-up, open all month. This is not the review story post link-up.
{If you are looking for the winners of last month’s giveaway, you can find them here.}
As always your post made me stop and think Jennifer. Thank you for that. And now I am coveting that sign! Perhaps I should wait on a few more art supplies during down time and buy it? Post to come.
Thank you Julie! It is a beautiful sign. This would be a great month to get it since the special is 25% off your entire order! 😉
just ordered it! can’t wait.
Oh, I love this, Jennifer! Yes , I will be seeking with you! Thank you! 🙂
So happy to hear you will also be seeking! Looking forward to seeing your finds, Jennifer!
Like the gray sky overhead that brings cooler weather to us…the quiet patter of rain drops falling gently from the sky. There’s a heavenly quality about the silence of the early morning before the world awakes.
And that comment was supposed to be from me. LOL.
Beautiful, Nikole. Your words paint a wonderful picture of His beauty. Thank you for sharing!
I love this, especially “… things don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful. You start to see the beauty in the imperfect. You start to find beauty in the messy. ” Thanks for this, Jennifer! <3
It is amazing how your perspective changes when you intentionally are searching for the beauty. Thank you, Amy!
I live in beauty all the time. I am surrounded by mountains–just looking at them I see God’s handiwork.
I find beauty in people also. My dad is a good example. He lovingly took care of mom for 2 years 2 months until her death. She was bed ridden with dementia and sundowners. He did everything from cleaning her up to making sure she had meds and food–all that at an advanced age.
My husband is another beautiful person in my life. He gets up early (5am) daily and travels 32 miles one way to work at a hospital doing CT scans. Work can be hard and there have been times he wanted to quit, but he keeps persevering for us. Another side to my hubby is that he was there for me during my mom’s illness and eventual death.
I guess you could call me blessed as I’m surrounded by so much beauty in my life!
That is so wonderful and beautiful, Beth! What a blessing to have such people filled with beauty in your life. Thank you so much for sharing your beauty with us!
My most recent post is about the beauty of the end of day:
http://murmursofmyheart.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/ethereal-beauty/
Sorry… not sure how to “link up”… 🙂
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I am sorry, Kristen! I should have explained it. You can click on the words ‘click here to enter’. It then gives you a place to enter your post address, a title of your post, and then you can chose the photo to use for the thumbnail. I will link up your post. Thank you so much for sharing!
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Great idea Jennifer. My blog “motto” is “Finding Beauty, Joy and Contentment in my everyday life” for as I seek I surely do find.
So beautiful! Lately, when the kids and the housework are wearing me down, I take my camera outside and go for a walk- it definitely refreshes me! 🙂
Hi Jennifer!
I love your new idea! I was wondering if I can participate with an old post for this time?Your introduction reminded me a lot of an old post I have.
Thank you and have a great day!
Nora
Sure, Nora! Please do link up your fitting post!
What a wonderful idea!!!!!!!! I had difficulty narrowing down my pictures to use
Here is the link for the page on my blog (which I started after reading One Thousand Gifts and finding our the Enemy surrounding our middle son, pulling him into choosing sin). So we are seeking to find grace, joy, and understanding knowing that God is in control.
Wasn’t quite sure how the link work either! Here is the link to the page on my blog
http://beegee10.wordpress.com/everything-beautiful-begins-with-god/