You Are So Beautiful

Happy Friday Friends!

I hope and trust this post finds you all having a great day on this beautiful Friday morning! As I sit at my kitchen table typing this the sun is just starting to rise - it is a spectacular view, birds are waking up and starting to sing their morning songs and my Beautiful Bride and 3 Tender Warrior are peacefully asleep upstairs...Blessed beyond measure!!!

So this is one of those weeks where I knew for the better part of the week what this Happy Friday was going to be about and then this morning everything changed. As I was posting my quote of the day on Facebook I found and watched a sweet, touching, powerful video. It was a little boy with Down's Syndrome and his dog. There is really not a whole lot to the video...it is just a boy and his dog sitting there. In the background is playing the song You Are So Beautiful by The Beach Boys. When I say there was not a whole lot to the video I mean there wasn't a whole lot of action, stuff flying around, craziness...all the stuff we look for in videos. The video was very, very rich in the way the boy and the dog looked at each other, in how they loved on each other, in how they simply found and enjoyed the beauty in one another. My spirit was convicted.

Here are a few of the lyrics to You Are So Beautiful by The Beach Boys:

You are so beautiful to me
You are so beautiful to me
Can't you see

You're everything
I hoped for and what's more
You're everything I need
You are so beautiful, baby to me

 

There are two different ways I want to approach this:

 

1. I believe in God. I believe He created you and me. I believe that you and I are fearfully & wonderfully made by God for a purpose and that we are perfectly equipped, lacking nothing, to fulfill the purpose He created us for. You don't have to believe what I believe however I have to tell you what I believe to give perspective for the point I would like to make - what I believe to be true.

 

When God looks at you Friend, these are the words He speaks. You are so beautiful to me/Can't you see. Please let that sink in for a moment. Do you have faults, failures, blemishes? Absolutely, we all do. Regardless, to God you are perfect, beautiful, created just as He designed, to grow and become all that He created you to become. In a world that desperately wants to tell each one of us that we fall short, that we are inadequate please hear these words with the ears of your heart, let them speak to the depths of your soul. It is a lie that you are irretrievably broken, that you are a failure, that you are inadequate. You are in fact beautiful...incredibly so!

 

Today - and then tomorrow and the next day and the next day... - please remember these words and how God sees YOU. Drowned out the noise of a fallen, broken world that is tirelessly pursuing...I can't even come up with a word here because in reality, this world is full of people pursuing things they can not define, never having enough, never being good enough, seeking validation from people, places and things that can never validate them. I pray you will know who you are, Who's you are and that you will walk in the perfect peace that can only come from knowing these things.

 

2. How would our marriages, the relationships with our children, with our friends be different if we sang these words to our spouses, our kids, our friends with our thoughts, words & actions? It takes absolutely zero skill, talent, leadership or any other gift to find the faults, failures, inadequacies in others...WE ARE ALL BROKEN! I am highly certain that this is why we spend so much time being critical of one another; we are trying to establish the pecking order, to make ourselves feel better. I might be broken but you are more broken...huh?!?!

 

Men, what if we truly looked into the eyes of our wives and said, "you are so beautiful to me. You are everything I hoped for. You are everything I need" and then backed that up by the way we acted? For those of you who actually try this...you are welcome! :) How about our kids? What if, instead of talking about what they didn't do, can't do or won't do, we communicated to them how thankful we are that they are ours? That instead of pointing out the faults we pointed out the beauty? And our friends; how come we seem to forget that we are all fighting something? Yes, your friends have faults, problems & struggles...just like you and me. What if, instead of being critical of the negative things we see them do or say we just looked for - and because we are looking for it - we found their beauty? What if we encouraged them when things are going well, we let them lean on us when they grow weary and we told them of all the beauty we see in them when they feel like a tattered, broken mess?

 

You are beautiful Friends. If you will choose to look for beauty in others you will find it. I pray that today you will know just how beautiful you are and you will intentionally seek to find the beauty in others and then live all these things out in your thoughts, words & actions.

 

Please don't hesitate to contact me if there is ever anything I can do for you or your family. I will always be willing to help you any way I can.

 

Have a great day, a wonderful weekend and please cherish your precious families.

 

Kev