I've recently discovered something so simple and beautiful that it has to be God!
I have realized just how blessed I truly am and how much beauty GOD has placed in my life. Now, when I usually speak of beauty, I am describing the beauty of nature: the sky, the trees, leaves rustling in the breeze, flowers, water-ways and water falls, rocks, caves and clouds, etc. Sometimes when I describe beauty I am speaking of the beautiful creatures: birds, butterflies, fish, puppies and though I'm not a fan, kittens can be rather cute too (especially when they keep their distance) and some wildlife are just plain gorgeous; but perhaps, when I say beauty... I'm thinking of my daughter who always has been the epitome of beauty and love to me.
Well, the thing that I've recently recognized and I truly mean it's become so evident to me that it can no longer be overlooked or denied... is that GOD has blessed me with the most beautiful people in my life. Each individual has their own uniqueness. I have recently seen in people, the beauty that GOD himself filled them with. HE IS PRESENT IN MY LIFE THROUGH THEM.
It's HIM in their faces, eyes, hearts, personalities, kindness, smiles, words and hugs. It is HE, in the complete stranger who takes her time to make sure she comforts me through her knowledge of something that has me a bit perplexed and HE'S in the new friend who has made me his project... only wanting to bring joy and peace into my life while he remains in this country. It's the beauty of GOD extended in the hearts of two more friends who upon our meeting tells me they've heard so much about me already that they have claimed me and my child as friends and they immediately present her with a gifts.
It's in the caring heart of my mom who calls me daily just to make sure I'm okay and if I don't answer fast enough, she's starts leaving frantic messages on my voicemail. It's in the gesture of my youngest sister who drives across town to pick up Tyler while I'm working because she couldn't bear the thought of Ty being home alone and trust me when I say the list can go on to include my friends and co-laborers at Women of Destiny, who go out of their way often to make sure I know that they believe in the vision and in the visionary. Those friends who invest their time, treasures, money and thoughts as well as prayers into our lives.
I had become so consumed in my personal dilemmas that I'd lost sight of the LOVE that surrounds me daily. It's love that I see when the same people "like" my post within minutes of my writing them. People I have not had the pleasure of meeting personally; yet, GOD has allowed me the honor of touching their lives through HIS anointed words that HE gives me daily as I seek Him before I rise. See, I too have come to treasure the friendships so much that I first give you CHRIST (the words that HE drops in my Spirit or that HE deposits into me). I don't come to you half-cocked and I don't come in my own strength or in my own name, I come to you in the name of HIM who sent me. HE justifies me and it is only through HIS LOVE that I am able to share with you in hopes that you too will be touched with and by the revelations that HE first gives me, revelations like this one.
Today's revelation is... "GOD is walking amongst us daily". HE does so through HIS children. We imitators of HIM, we disciples of HIS. We are HIS representatives and HIS ambassadors of LOVE. It is the revelation that every person I have come in contact with has left a wonderful, beautiful imprint in my life; some were sowers of seed, some have poured water (through love) upon the seed and others were nurturers of the seeds. Regardless of their roles, the seed has matured and I now have beautiful trees with flower blossoms and fruit all over them growing within me. The fruit of these trees are the fruit of the Spirit... such fruit as: LOVE, joy, peace, faithfulness, gentleness, kindness, long-suffering, meekness, goodness and self-control.
I have been blessed in this life to have had the opportunity to come to myself; I've denied myself and in my selflessness, I have discovered LOVE like never before. There was a time recently that I was so self-involved that all I could see was what I wanted and didn't have, the terrible circumstances of diagnoses, heartache and pain. I was overworked and in my opinion... underpaid (no one can ever put a price tag on the value I bring to the day, the job, the relationship, etc.) I saw the lack of a romantic relationship and the strain of trying to be all things to all people and not enough to and for myself. NOW, all I see how GOD has been showering me with HIS presence and with HIS LOVE through HIS elect this whole time and you know the greatest gift of it all is being able to realize it before it became too late. The connections that may have been mine early on, when I was still caught up in my own little world are still a part of my life; so, I still have the time to sow into them, thank them, LOVE them, bless them and hopefully plant seed, water or nurture those lives for as long as God will allow and as long as I still have breath.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CREATION OF ALL CREATION IS YOU and I am so happy to have had the opportunity to KNOW you. I LOVE YOU sincerely, deeply and truly... I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART AND I APPRECIATE YOUR SHARING THE GOD IN YOU WITH ME! :) Take time to look around and search the hearts, eyes, hugs, faith, gentleness and kindness of those around you. In their sweet words, time invested and their willingness to help, choose to see GOD; for truly HE IS THERE in the very people that surround us daily. HE IS INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN THE DETAILS of our lives, offering assistance in the smallest; yet, most miraculous ways. HE IS OUR MIRACLE... "And the WORD became flesh and dwelt among us"... and today HE IS still dwelling among us by dwelling INSIDE of each of us.
~Dee Poole
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