Beauty and Beast

I had the joy of snapping some pictures in a friend’s garden last week. After snapping a few shots she took me to a master gardener’s home where I also snapped some lovely pictures. Of all the pictures I took, this snap, above, beauty and beast, is my favorite.

The tiny blossom on the unwanted weed, beside the lovely, large blossom, caught my eye, and reminded me that there is beauty and beast in our lives. As it says in Ecclesiastes 3:1, “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven . . .” God has a plan.

And there lies life. Beauty and beast, good and bad, joy and sorrow. We are not capable of understanding the why in each situation. It is our part to be faithful, believing as a child. And I do.

A treasured friend lost her granddaughter this week. The young woman did drugs and ran with a wild crowd. Her life ended on Sunday morning. This is the beast, the bad, and the sorrow. A precious life gone. Their live’s will never be the same.

My friend and I have corresponded for 25 years. We have prayed for each other and our children. How tragedy breaks are hearts. What loss is felt in a family.

The beauty in the blossom above is so much bigger than the beast and it’s tiny bloom. But they go together. You can’t have one without the other in this life. This one thing I know. God cares. He Cares. God CARES! I’ll shout it again! GOD CARES!

Last week I saw my first fawn (below) of the season. Driving home, on a new road that intersects with one I regularly travel, God delighted me by having a fawn about 10 yards off the road. I know God placed him there because I had to back up 25 feet before I could even get a snap off. But he only let me take four pictures before he turned and ran.



Still looking for my own fawns. Maybe this week!