Beauty unfolds

What is Beauty to you?

Beauty unfolds in the blink of an eye.

When we see what is hidden inside.

If we stay long enough to let old walls die.

And remember that old owls are wise.

If we learn to listen instead of speak.

there we will find whats profound at it's peak.

If we listen with our heart instead of our mind.

That is where we seek and fin

   True beauty comes with patience so kind...

   It doesn't look so pretty at times..

      Sometimes it come with age and thin lines.

             If we stay and be consistent.

            then we see where others have missed it.

              It will set it self free.

           It comes in the form of hurt hearts that need to mend.

           It is the beauty of a great friend!

Time

Ever think about what really matters? We are not promised tomorrow give all you can today!

Hard pill to swallow: 

Think of it if you are lucky enough to live a full life, imagine being in a hospital bed knowing it is your time to go. 

Will you be happy with the decisions that you made in your life?

 I can see me gauged in thought have I done the right things? 

 Have I love with my whole heart and held nothing back?

 Am I leaving a legacy that I want to be remembered for? 

It has been said that it doesn't matter what you've done or said but how you made others feel that sticks. 

I think will I have regrets? 

Will I have untended relationships?
 Hurts just thinking about it...

Have I showed others what is in my heart have?

I done what was best for them and not me? 

I am very aware of how fast the end can creep up. 

My father died when I was 14 and in the matter of one year he was gone. 

He was 33 years old.

As I became 33 this year I look at my life and think of him wondering how afraid he was know that time was coming?

Feeling like the dream of a life that he would have expected to carry out was probably not going to happen.

 I look at my kids I imagine being him...

It really puts it perspective thinking about all that I would miss and it breaks my heart more now than ever.  

 Sick, the cancer filled his body.

 I was not able to grasp the sickness with my adolescent mind.

 I was a rebellious teenager running every time I had the chance. 

Trying to figure out who I was. 

Some times I wonder if he felt like I should have spent more time with him. 

I Guess that is just apart of the guilt I felt the day i watched him die. 

There wasn't time for words. 

However it haunts me the ability that you have to someone can be just ripped from your hands because you didn't savor the moment!

 I think about the moments we had and how much I admired him.

 Not because he was awesome father figure, it took him a long time to gain that title.

Early on he was an alcoholic who abused my mom, He treated us kids good but he wasn't very good to her or to our upbringing. 

Even now I can run into people and they tell me what a legendary fighter he was and how strong and great he was. I used to think he was a super hero!

 He could back flip and walk on his hands. 

Oh I loved my Daddy.

 What would he have wanted me to carry on... 

Not the Alcohol or the abuse, that I did carry for many years.

 But believe that he would want me to carry on his understanding. 

When he was sick he wasn't able to drink, all his friends dwindled away and he found what really mattered the hard way... 

I watched my father cry at different times continually his friends were gone I know it hurt that he traded us in for them so many times, and now they were gone. 

I know that he looked around and found what really mattered. 

He never raised his voice again only his eye- brows.

 But in that 1 year he loved us and God filled up for lost time... 

He realized what mattered!

How about you?

Jesus asked: Who do you say that I am?

Jesus is calling us to a deeper knowledge of him... Her is speaking to us through his word. He is saying who do you say I am?

Who is this Jesus?

Matthew 16:13-20

“Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

¹⁴ They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

¹⁵ “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

¹⁷ Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. ¹⁸ And I tell you that you are Peter,^[a] and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades^[b] will not overcome it. ¹⁹ I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be^[c] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be^[d] loosed in heaven.” ²⁰ Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.

(Bible Gateway: NIV)

Who is Jesus? He was a lamb slain before the foundation of the earth. He was already, before Adam. I am and continue to be amazed with the way that God thinks and his mind. As David say’s in Psalm 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,too lofty for me to attain. I can not begin to understand all the wisdom that he has. Amazing is he. I know he loved us so much and when we start to grasp who and why he is and was, God reveals Jesus more and more. Jesus is the son of God to me in goes so much deeper because he is my savior my Rock everything that I am. Grundy say’s That Mathew’s reoccurring stress on Jesus’s fulfillment of the old Testament law and messianic prophecy as well as tracing his history back to Abraham was to fulfill prophecy. Jesus was the word made flesh. So God spoke the word it was written down the Jesus came to complete it.

What do men Think of me? Men are still saying the same (Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”) Maybe they aren’t saying Elijah or John the baptist . However; some say he is a prophet. Some confess Jesus as the Son of God others believe different following false doctrines.

Then he goes on to say” Who do you say that I am?” This is one of the most revealing scriptures in the New Testament. This show’s me that it is God’s responsibility to reveal the son to us. When I read this a couple of years ago it spoke so clear to me. I thought there were different ways to come to the revelation of who Christ was. Reading extensively trying to know his heart, doing works. You know that Judas walked with Jesus and I have heard it said that he didn't have the true revelation of who Jesus was and if he did his heart would have been changed. I have also heard it said that Judas thought that Jesus was going to stop them because of who he was. I know that since it has been revealed to me I will never be the same. There could not have been a true revelation of Christ other wise it would have changed the course of history. He could not have gained this revelation because he was supposed to do what he had done. So that that which was written would come to pass.

Jesus goes on to say that Peter could not have known this on his own but the father hath revealed it to him. I believe that we have to have the eyes of our heart enlightened and there are many things we don’t understand but God reveals as we can handle.

CCurry.