Resplendentruth

I'm following the blog Resplendentruth and when I read her post "See the Beauty" I wanted to share it with others. I already posted this, but was then reminded by my mother that I should have asked her if I could share her post on my blog. So I deleted it, emailed her and now that I have her permission I'm sharing the post again. I thought I should explain that for those of you who read the post, then saw it vanished and reappear.

Look around you. Maybe there’s a window nearby. Look out of it. What do you see? Do you see the vast sky, or at least a small section of it? Do you see trees?

Beauty lies everywhere. This world, and even the things outside it are amazing. A simple flower, petals so perfectly shaped, the color crisp and bright. Beautiful.

The sky, so brilliantly blue, full of bright streams of sunshine. Trees reach their waving branches up into the air providing a wonderful, vivid contrast of color.

Petrichor. A wonderful word to describe the wonderful smell of the earth after rain. Fresh. Beautiful.

The feeling of warm sun touching your skin in an invisible embrace. The sun touches the earth, providing warmth and light, and yet, if it were any closer, we would burn up. If it were any farther away, we would freeze. The perfect distance for life.

Even beyond the earth and the wonderful things on it, planets hang in the emptiness, each striking in size and color. At this point, we are barely a speck on the surface of a vast and beautiful planet. But, head further out to see even greater wonders, thousands of light years away, a distance I can’t even fathom – the distance light travels in a year. We see galaxies and trillions of stars, all shining brightly in perfect beauty.

Galaxy M106, 25 million light years away.

The M106 Galaxy

Go a little further out, 28 million light years, and you will find The Sombrero Galaxy. It is 50,000 light years across.

The Sombrero Galaxy

20 million light years away is the Whirlpool Galaxy or the M51 Galaxy. The Nucleus of this galaxy holds something amazing.

The Center of the Whirlpool Galaxy

According to the Hubble site, “the galaxy is spectacular because it is tilted nearly face-on to Earth, allowing for an unobstructed view of its the bright core.”

Stunning. A perfect picture of God’s love and power.

Yet, even with all this beauty and great feats of workmanship around us, we get caught up in the things of life. We are weighted down and simply forget to look at the wonders around us.

It’s so easy to take for granted the world around us, and to walk around without a constant sense of wonder.

I would challenge you to take a few minutes to look. Simply look. See the wonder. See the beauty. Look for God’s fingerprints on His creation. And above all, realize how great your creator is. Realize that if He made this world, and even the things outside of it thousands of light years away, he can take care of you. He is bigger than anything that you can even imagine. And He loves you.

Don’t take it for granted. Look for the beauty in everything.

Christ Is Risen

     "And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straight away left their nets, and followed him." Matthew 4:19-20
     "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and greatest commandment." Matthew 22:37-38
     "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen." Matthew 28:19-20
     This is the command of our Father. If we love Him with all our heart, soul, and mind then we will obey his command and go to all the nations declaring the wondrous news to all that will hear. "It is finished." (John 19:30b)"Christ is risen just as He said! We are forgiven of our sins, we are one with Him again!" And we will sing praises to our God because we're overflowing with the joy of the Lord, "Christ is risen from the dead, trampling over death by death. Come awake, come awake, come and rise up from the grave! Christ has risen from the dead! We are one with Him again!"

     That's the short, but important message I have that took me about an hour to put together. For my quote or Bible verse I will do Psalm 8:1 "O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens."

     The above verses from Matthew came from the KJV. Psalm 8:1 was probably from NIV, but I'm not sure. The song Christ Is Risen is from Words and Music by Matt Maher and Mia Fieldes, Arranged by Gary Rhodes from the book The Instant Worship Choir Collection Volume 2.

Frustrations

     I can not believe this! It's both funny and frustrating at the same time. In my post "Updates and Apologies" I apologized for the many grammar and spelling mistakes I made in my last posts. I think I made more mistakes in that post than all the others combined! I forgot to use the spell check, I spelled "apologies" wrong! Apologies! How silly is that? Every time I looked at my post (after I published it and two people already read it) I found at least one mistake. Okay, I feel better now that I've gotten that out of my system.
    So, I'm following a few other Christian teens blogs and one of them does a quote of the week post which I thought was cool. I think I might do that. :) I'll either do a quote, or Scripture, or both. We'll start with this one, Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." NIV
   And that's all. God bless you! :D

Updates and Apologies

     Oh my goodness, have I really been gone for a whole month?! I knew it had been awhile since I made my last post, but I didn't realize it had been a month. I do apologize for my long absence. I didn't do much on the Internet during March, nor did I do much writing. Now April is here and with it Camp Nano so I'm back online. I've chosen Remember Ariel for my Camp Nano book with a goal of achieving 45,000 words by the end of the month. So far I'm doing good, I'm writing an average of 1,500 words a day which puts me ahead of schedule. I hope I'm not boring you with all my talk about my novels, but I have absolutely no idea of what else to talk about. Remember Ariel is doing pretty well, better than I expected actually. The main plot is still a little fuzzy... okay, a lot fuzzy, but so far that hasn't been a problem.
     Also, I'm sorry for how badly written my last post and possibly all the others are. I just type these posts out in about... *thinking* oh,  I don't know, thirty minutes(?) maybe. I only read over it once so I miss a lot of errors. I only knew that my last post had a good deal of grammar and spelling mistakes because I let my mom read it and she pointed a few out to me after I had already posted it. Although, I doubt this post will be any better.
     *Sigh* I am really struggling with what to talk about. I don't want to bore my readers, but I don't want to abandon my blog either. The only things I can't think to talk about are Remember Ariel and the British show Doctor Who. My best friend introduced me to the show and I love it! I get really excited every time I find out someone else likes Doctor Who too..... That's all I can think of to say today... and I forgot how I said good bye in my other posts. Oh well, I'll say something different. :) God bless you! :D