in the eye of the beholder...

Oh yeah... and Joshua Bell has a Grammy. That's pretty cool too...

Anyways... I actually read this several months ago but haven't posted about it yet. It's just been waiting for me in a file and I stumbled across it tonight...

Beauty truly lies in the eye of the beholder.

Just take a look at the planet we live on...

There is so much evil, so much ugly, and so much sin.

Well. That's true... says the half-empty sort of guy...


But you know what? We live on a beautiful planet. Sure, there is bad stuff out there. There is much more bad stuff than we'd like... and that is really and truly a sad thing...

But we live amongst beautiful creations... beautiful people... and beautiful truths.

That reminds me of this song... go listen!

I liked the part in the above article that said,
"At ten minutes, a three-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly."

I really do believe that most little children are more apt to stop and appreciate beauty... because every new thing they see is interesting to them...

Maybe it's part of the whole "become as a little child" thing.

Learn to see beauty.

Because, well, we are surrounded by it. And it makes you a happier person... when you see beauty in seemingly simple things around you...

Really and truly.