We’re exploring this question and response in four ways these weeks leading up to Christmas. This week, through beauty.

Because I Love You - Beautiful (Nov 28) From the scant words in a poem, a stranger’s smile, to the changing autumn leaves there is beauty in the world telling you that you are loved. Even in a barren desert, if you look, you find nature has a gift of beauty in the crystalline structure of the sand. This week we zoom in from our 35,000’ view of life speeding by to witness the love in the simple beauty of our world.

Jeanette Mayo Nature Photography

“What I want to do is redefine our understanding of what is beautiful and of what love is.” - Greg Meyer

The Bible comes back again and again to the simple, small (dismissible?) beauties all around us - the garden, the sparrow, lilies, trees growing by streams of water, a green shoot coming out of a stump…to point toward the nature of the immense love we are a part of, held by.  Poets, artists too. 

The Pause Box is a ritual for this season before Christmas to help you practice, discover and share the love that the world holds for you. Try it this week! You don’t need just the right supplies or even questions - the important part is making a physical space and time to pause. 

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