Dog walks and clouds

"I see Your face in every sunrise
The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakens in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say
You're beautiful"-Phil Wickam

Tonight was a beautiful night.  


Just like this song, I found myself standing amazed at God's creation and it got me wondering if we do that enough.

Have you ever stopped and just looked at the sky?  Just paused and really soaked it all in?  My friends make fun of me all the time for this but I am simply in love with everything about the sky.  To be honest, I won't be surprised if one day in my life I am driving and I get in a car accident because I'm looking at the sky.  That's how deep my fascination runs.


Tonight, I chose to take the two dogs my family is watching to the glen around the lake and I was so taken with what I was seeing because I felt like I was seeing it through new eyes.   


Psalm 23:2 says, "...He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul."


It'd be very easy for me to recite this passage and fully believe in it for a few reasons... 
A. it's a perfect summer night
B. i'm not stressed out or busy
C. life is at a much better point than a few weeks ago


Life will never be perfect. Never. As a self-professed perfectionist I need to drill this into my mind every single day probably up until the day I leave this Earth.  But I'm beginning to see that unless we immerse ourselves in the beauty around us completely, we'll never fully experience God and His grace in our lives.  Something as simple as the sky we see day after day can be exactly what we need to open our hearts to His voice. 


All it takes is looking up.
Psalm 19:1