Creating Beauty, Lens of Love

“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.” – Alice Walker

“Love as a disposition does not primarily act on abstract principle. Instead it is a way of seeing habitually and responding to the real, separate, individual needs of each of the people we encounter in our lives every single day.”― Roberta C. Bondi, To Love as God Loves

To be kind when it is not offered or withdrawn
To go first again
To not count or compare
To be peace in the chaos
To be patient longer
To yield rather than lunge
To slow and gaze
To abide and embrace
To trust and allow
A state of grace, awe, wonder
Love in action

“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.”― Henri J.M. Nouwen