Day 23 – Beauty By Surprise

In a time when objects catch your eye, welcoming at times and at others, a shockingly unwelcome stealing your gaze, it is good to be captivated by surprise.

The light landing on places, causing leaves to glisten, overgrown weeds or wildflowers to shine.

I thought to write about the goodness of dark chocolate with almonds since my “good” yesterday was a little heavy,

But, today with a baby boy in a stroller, I’ll stick with “beauty by surprise”.

Beauty you can’t stop looking for, beauty you know intersected your day because God saw your secrets, knew you needed to see something beautiful and untainted by humanity.

Baby Henry kicking his little feet and learning early, Grandma stops often, pauses on our walks and stands still with her eyes closed or sometimes just looks long at the sky.

And then, she walks.

A peaceful walk, a beautiful way.