What If Every Beautiful Thing Was God’s Way of Saying Your Name?
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When God created the world, she thought of me. She knew me then and she knows me still. God thinks of me in each sun I see rise and each sun I see set. God thinks of me when each star glimmers and twinkles in the darkness of night. Love thinks of me when the moon and the sun meet in the sky, passing by to say hi. She loves me. She really, really loves me! With the snow melting and the heat returning, these are all but some of God’s thoughts of me.
And then there’s the perfume of flowers, a parade of shapes and colors and structures. The anatomy determines the physiology and it is all beauty I see! The smell of coffee and the joy of laughter. There is nothing greater than God’s thoughts of me than love God herself.
She is me. I Am her. Words powerful and commanding, time bending to my will.
Love is in the Details
Love thinks of me when the best cook cooks for me at the silent retreat. When people who I retreated with remember details of me.
Love is the crying soul restarting the fire. Love IS! Love is everything, everywhere, all at once. Or love is nothing, nowhere, never.
There is too much love to say there is no love. There is too much grace to say that is no love. There is too much flavor, fun. There is too much! Too much opportunity, more endless and vast than the ocean. Too much creativity and color. Too much laughter and joy and smiles. There is too much to know love is here, there, and everywhere. And so, I love. I see love. I give love. Surely I receive love, too.
Isn’t that our job? For those who know her, share her?
Don’t keep love hidden like you do the numbers of dollars in your bank account. No! Share love like immigrants share food, trees share oxygen, and the sun shares her rays. ♡
A Prayer For the Black Woman Who is Learning to See Herself in Every Beautiful Thing
Thank you love, for beauty. Thank you that I am beautiful because YOU ARE. Thank you that I am made in your image and who I AM is who YOU ARE—beautiful, wonderful, magnificent. Thank you that I AM light because YOU ARE. Thank you that I know the way because YOU ARE the way. You are the truth. You are the light. As you are, so am I. I AM truth, I AM light, I AM the way.
Thank you that the transformation is the shift from knowing to being. I don’t want to know what I AM I want to BE who I AM in YOU! No more passive observations of beauty, but now gratefully and boldly empowered by the active recognition that you are the reason for it — that the mountains, the stars, the seasons, and the sun are not coincidences but communications. That beauty is an invitation is to receive that divine, holy, sacred, perfect love I can’t help but become a conduit of — sharing love as freely and instinctively as trees share oxygen. Giving life, healing breaths, by my very being.
Thank you for words, for gifts, and for life. And so it is. It was spoken. It is written. It is breathing. It is believed. It is already done. Ase. Ameen. Amen.
You Are Made for This Kind of Love
If this piece stirred something in you, if you’re ready to stop observing your own beauty from a distance and start living from it — Extend Yourself Grace™ was built in love for you. This is the work. Let’s do it.
