Movement – we take it for granted sometimes. There is beauty in the ability to walk and stretch and lean and dance and tackle and run and skip and fly.
Beauty in movement.
What do you notice first? The rising of the sun? Or the deer roaming through the trees munching their breakfast? Or did you catch the rays of light moving through the trees? Watch it a few times. There are several gifts of Beauty here in just :23 seconds.
How about the movement here…
To think this started as a blank canvas. My friend combined rich colors, a brush and her daughter to create this painting. Do you hear the invitation? Can you feel the joy in movement? Is it inviting you to skip through crunchy leaves? Does it inspire you to get outside? Do you wonder where she’s headed? (greatness, this girl is headed to greatness) Does it remind you of the holidays? The time and intention behind each stroke of acrylics is beauty to me.
I was hiking by myself this morning and asked God for starlings for you. I wanted to show you the murmurations – that’s what the big swooping cloud of birds is called. European Starlings will move and dive and swerve in a mass of chirping birds that in a flash go silent. The murmuration is mesmerizing. The Beauty of their movement is undeniable. And so, I got greedy and asked God.
Sure enough, He answered. Check out who was chirping overhead.
This screenshot from my Merlin bird app (don’t judge, download and then tell me your thoughts). I wish I had a video of the cloud of European Starlings moving through the sky but I don’t. So, I’m going to ask you to be on the look out!
And, let’s just appreciate this screenshot as evidence of me putting myself in the path of oncoming Beauty and Beauty waiting to meet me, meet us!
Let’s keep it going.
how the light gets in 