Thankful on a Monday

"I wonder too....if the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, our own emptiness, might actually become places to see. To see through to God. That that which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave."

~Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts, chapter 1

I've dealt with messes, losses, emptiness...some long ago, some so fresh it aches still--they will me to look up, look beyond the pain that can be part of this life's portion. Sometimes we don't recognize the beauty beyond the thin places until years later. Perspective changes as time passes. I do crave God, His beauty. So I'm hunting, noticing, keeping eyes open to see His beauty in my every day life...

#1-10, and always counting.....

*Clean slate of a new day

*Warm floors under cold feet

*Science experiments at 8 am, just because

*White blanket of beauty on February's fields

*Bunny tracks on undisturbed snow

*Words that bring inspiration and healing

*Dinner bubbling in the crockpot

*Heart to hearts with Andrew

*Toddler kisses

*Cousins all day