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Beauties and Bounties

By Roseller Famor

There’s so much beauty around.

One has to open one’s eyes to the vast horizons extending to the pathway of our envisioned goals and dreams in life. Having to live a life with great recognition of the abundance of God’s grace is an exceptional blessing! Is it within human capacity to create a beautiful sun rising and setting to give us a glimpse of how colorful the world is, that was long then created before us? Can we let the flowers blossom and the trees to give fruits with a touch? There’s so much beauty around to triumph and be thankful for— only if our eyes are open to the many delightful realities of living.

But one must also consider this: Too much preoccupation on individual workloads and assignments can contribute to the drying up of one’s sense of joy in living. It creates a vacuum of energy, pulling one to have a lesser drive in life, eventually leading oneself to emotional torment. Everyday brings new experiences, more or less leading to growth or destruction because, basically there are only two ends of the road. One has to understand the twist of one’s journey in order to live its unexpected turn. All I’m saying here is the reality that life is complex, more so that each individual longs to be content in whatever state of life they’re in.

Complex as it may be, there is always a binding hope in each step that we make. How can one person live, make decisions, make actions, plan out things, without recognizing that sense of hope one has to keep? There’s always hope in us, even without us confirming it. It’s a joy to realize that all of us hope for the best. And what does it mean to hope for the best? It is to live in joy and love!

Isn’t it everybody’s desire to be happy? To love and be loved? I guess that’s the ultimate dream of every person. The world we’re having today could be a total opposite of what we dream of, but it could also be the perfect avenue for the fulfillment of our treasured hopes, dreams and aspirations. Needless to say, it all lies in us, on how we perceive a certain event in our life.

We’re all living on the bounties of God’s grace and blessings. To recognize it fully is the way to pure joy. Beautiful is the journey to those who have seen clearly the righteous way that God has prepared for each one of us. We are all His children and in His eyes we are equal. He chooses not the perfection of our actions, for we could never be perfect, but He chooses to love us in our weaknesses. We shall always recognize that we are never alone in our plight for a meaningful living. God journeys with us always through the people He has brought to be part of our lives. We might not recognize it, but He loves us beyond measure! We shall be all giving. We shall always recognize that we are so blessed, because we have a Loving Father who endures the pain of giving His Son Jesus to redeem us from the slavery of sin. Great is His love for us. No other Being could love us more, other than Him alone.

Carry on! God loves ME and YOU! May God bless us all!