Category Archives: Beautiful Things

Fleeting Beauty

The trees outside our living room window display more colour every day – every time...

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A Few Thoughts on Trees, Spring and Dried Flowers

Do you also enjoy being in the woods? Lately I've often used an app to...

Little Home Joys

At times I like to walk through the house with my camera in hand and...

Giving Way to Life Abundantly

What beauty can come out of our own surrender and trust? What if we, like...

Oh, I Smell Spring!

“It was a bland day in early April and spring was looking at you round...

Lovely Song About The Joy of Beauty in Spring and Summer

I hope you enjoy this lovely song by Karen Peris, it reminds me of those...

Our Blackberry Harvest

The bushes were filled with the joyful fruit we’d been talking about since November. Last...

What Love Really Means

Love. It’s a word often used. But what does it mean? In a dictionary love...

Learn to See New Things

even now, 50 years later, it is still an interesting show to watch. It teaches...

Thoughts on Hope at the Post Office – By John Berger

“The post office at Auxonne is small and the postmistress has blue eyes. I have...

Not a Dancer? Try This Instead

Follow Napoleon Dynamite's example

Practical Remedies Against Melancholy – By Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith was born in the 18th century and writes about his solutions to melancholy...

Don’t Turn Down This Invitation!

"There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I’m tempted to...

“I’m so Glad I Live in a World Where There are Octobers” – From Anne of Green Gables

“October was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned...

What If Life Was Meant to Be Seen?

What if Life was meant to be seen? Our only job To notice the bird...

A Hopeful Song for When You Don’t Feel Strong

Sometimes songs say it better than anything else. As long as God surrounds us with...

7 Questions to Ask Yourself to Become A Better You. – by A.W. Tozer

In the following passage from the book ‘That Incredible Christian’ A.W. Tozer helps us to...

How to Always Look Lovely According to Roald Dahl

if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and...

I Wish I Was Fearless

This is a little poem on being fearless that I wrote to accompany this painting....

Jane Eyre Fan? Here Are 3 Paintings You Can Download

While I was in my bubble reading it for the first time I ended up...

What We Can Learn From Birds

One thing I like about birds is that when the day is windy, they go...

The Second Coming of the Trees – A Poem by Wendell Berry

The country where he lives is haunted by a ghost of an old forest. In...

Walking on the Edge of the Abyss

but I don’t feel scared, really. Rather amazed, every day, that I am still standing...

What I Learned From My 90-year-old Friend

When we got to know each other we were surprised at how similar we were,...

Finding Beauty in Grieving

Grieving over someone who died is painful. But in this experience there are also places...

Turning Sadness into Joy – Vincent van Gogh’s Life

He was very poor, got heartbroken several times, got betrayed by friends, had a complicated...

My Perspective on Sufjan Stevens’ Song Vesuvius

To me it is almost a worship song. Not a typical one. And others might...

Practice Resurrection – My Favorite Poem by Wendell Berry

Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have...

This Relient K Song Will Help You To Let Go Of Your Heart Aches

When life feels hard or when you don’t understand why things are happening, it is...

Discover Beautiful Light in Your Home

Light. At times I wonder what it is about light that brings so much joy...