How Do We Turn Back?

The place we are today... is it where we should be? Is it where we could be?

I hate living in reality in the sense that I don't like what it has become. I cannot stand where we are as a country or as a world in general. Where are our heads and why is it so hard to see the awesomeness that surrounds us? This world is beautiful but everyday the awful things we do changes a gazillion aspects of our perfect little world.

I love to stop and look around; to stop and smell the roses as they say. One of my all time favorite thing includes the sun and its shadows (although I am already slightly partial to shadows). I love the way the shadows hit the ground letting the sunlight peek through here and there; it is gorgeous and I feel like these little things are God's way of giving us joy, pure and simple. God doesn't necessarily give us the things we pray for; He gives us opportunity to develop and get what we desire for ourselves. However, this beautiful world and all the joys that come with it are His way of giving us beauty and joy straight-up.

Take a moment to enjoy this world each and everyday. Look at the sunset while sitting at red lights, admire the beauty in simple shadows and sun rays, stop and smell the roses.

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