Humor and Gratitude are pretty high-quality food for our souls, but there’s more. Sometimes we want more than humor - and need more than that and that’s cool.

So today gift celebrates how amazing all forms of beauty are - whether it’s a breathtaking vista, or an amazingly performed piece of music by a musician, or a beautiful work of art, a lovely evening with friends, a heartening playtime with kids, or a soulfully gorgeous time in prayer with God. There are so many forms beauty can take - and they all hit our souls a little differently. Regardless - I wish you all of them. And I wish you a sharp memory of each of them so you can pull them back up from your memory banks to the forefront of your mind and bask in their warmth.

It’s so easy to find our lives bombarded with things that are just not beautiful - news, social media, uncertainties, … but beauty - and the power of beauty to remind us that there is so much more of value going on right now, right this very moment than just the things that unsettle us or which we find unfulfilling. I like to set my wallpapers, lock-screens, and desktops to scenes of vibrant beauty and end the day by soaking in the incredible gift that God gave us when he gave us just a tiny bit of His capacity to not just enjoy beauty - but create it. If you know me, then you know I like to play around with making beauty as much as I like to gaze upon it and soak it up. One of the things I love about where I live is all the varied sorts of natural beauty here.

And then there’s this sort of beauty …