Pictures That Let You Inhale Beauty and Exhale Chaos... Rest

Timeless Beauty

There is so much beauty in the usual, mundane, spectacular, hidden and obvious places.  I've captured a few and wanted a place to 'keep' them.

God is a God of beauty and splendour.  He splashes it across the sky.  He buries it in the depths of the sea.  He hides it under a tree or calls a flower to bloom out of the rocky soil.

God splashes it, revealing His beauty.  Other times He hides, calling us to search, dig, and want to find His beauty.

And in our lives, He redeems.
Taking ashes and making beauty.
Taking our weaknesses and shining His love and glory on them.

Beauty.
Glorious.
Sometimes Hard.
Sometimes Spectacular.
But all about HIM!

Just Because...

Just because some pictures are worth keeping.
Just because so much beauty must be recorded.
All because we spent a day at Lake Ontario in July.

A Day at Niagara - The Sound of Big Thunder

What a phenomena of a natural wonder!!!  NIAGARA FALLS.
The power of water - the force of its fall - the mist... is all a part of its splendour.

Our youngest could hardly wrap his mind around it, asking questions of how it was formed... did they get shovels and dig it??  did they take buckets and fill it up???

We smile at those words, but isn't that how our finite minds work, trying to grapple and find answers to the majesty of our God.  our Creator.  our Lover.

We wonder.  We gaze.  And our hearts try to wrap itself around the majestic glory and wonder of our Saviour.

I believe He wants us to gaze.  To enjoy the view.  To be awed and not understand His awesome-ness.  To be swallowed up in all of it.

Scary? yes.
Hard? you bet.
Worth it?  YES!

But to be able to do that... we must believe He is good and His heart is truly filled with love toward us.  We must be convinced, even in the middle of our questions, and give ourselves to the power of His love and trust His heart.

Niagara, the Thundering Falls.
Jesus, the Powerful Lover.