Beauty

Dear Lord please be with us this day and may the Holy Spirit please show us happy things this day, and may we please have enough energy to stay on paths that will lead us into Your presence as we seek Your Kingdom. Please show us the beauty, if only in memory, in Your creation when we hear singing birds, the chirping of invisible creatures, view the sky, and meet and greet Your children, some old friends and some new and different faces and personalities. Thank You for all of the great gifts and blessings that You have given us, and please forgive our sins the same as we forgive the mistakes of others, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen. 

Quotation:*
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of God. -Pascal 

KJV*
Song 2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 

Isa 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 
Isa 35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God. 
Isa 35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 
Isa 35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.