"I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."
Ecclesiastes 3:11
I like this. it's interesting to think exactly what the task is here on earth, and here we have a description. this is the challenge... God places us here, removes our memory of our pre-earth lives, and we learn to be oriented to the time on this earth, between life and death. that challenges us because it is hard to see beyond those limits, hard to raise our eyes and see farther. I liked especially though the part about making everything beautiful. I think that sometimes our challenge is that we see the beauty in something, but instead of admiring the beauty, we go and pluck it and put it in a vase and watch it die. or we see the pieces of beauty and take the evil parts in stride, because there is beauty mixed in. And sometimes it is a challenge, individually, to be beautiful. I'm not being vain, really... at all... just that we are all so different, and some people are going to see the beauty in us and some aren't... but how malleable are we to those people who do? Can we still stand up for what we believe in, or do we cave? Do we succumb to the flattery? :) And the people that *we* think are beautiful people... how do we treat them? Do we lay a larger burden at their feet? Do we expect more? Do we treat them better than everyone else?
Not that it is all hard stuff either. God has made us all beautiful, and that is a happy thing to remember today. Keep your roots in the ground and drink up all that God provides. :)
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