A Beautiful Mess

You are beautiful because God made you that way.  You are loved because God loves you more than you could possibly understand.  You are blessed because God loved you enough to make you beautiful and He shows you His grace and mercy every day.  Keep looking up because God has got His ever loving eye on you!

Good day to you all!  I know that everyday there is a struggle that you have to face, but I want you to know that someone is praying for you.  I want you to know that as you face your trials someone is praying for you.  When you feel like you are going through it alone, someone is praying for you.  Don’t give up on your because those prayers are being answered.  Look for a change to come.

I am in no way an art expert.  I do enjoy fine art and I know some facts about some artists, but when I go to a museum I am not the one that you want to ask about the paintings on the wall.  There are some that majored in art in college and have degree’s in the subject, but when it comes to it I either know what it is in the picture or I don’t.  I was talking to someone who has an eye for art and he told me that sometimes you have to tilt your head slightly, and move back a little bit, and you can see what the artist was trying to do.  He said that sometimes the key to understanding art is perspective.  I told him that the only thing that I was able to make out was a mess of colors.  I did tell him that it was a beautiful mess because the colors were so vivid and the arrangement made sense because each color did go together, but to me the art just made no sense.  I was looking at a priceless piece of art, yet  I could not make sense out of that beautiful mess.

Dear Reader I know that there are times when we feel that our life is just a mess.  We look at what we don’t have, and we look at what we need.  We look at what we could have had, and we think about our past dreams.  We blame ourselves for our failures. Sometimes it seems as though everything is going wrong and only getting worse.  I am speaking from experience today.  I am telling you that at one time I saw my life as just a mess.  However, Dear Reader I can tell you that when I took my mess to God, He did not see my mess the same way that I saw my mess.  What I called failure He called not good enough.  If I had gotten things the way that I wanted them I would have ended up with less than the best, and when you are a child of God 99 and a half won’t do.  When I thought that things were getting worse, God was teaching me to rely on Him because as my Father He will do what 99 and a half won’t do.  What we see as a mess, God steps back, and tilts His Holy Head slightly and moves back a little bit and sees the beauty that is there.  Your situations are lined up in the right order and they are going to work out for your good.  You are a priceless piece of art even though you feel like life is not going the way that you think that it should, and you can’t make any sense out of the mess that you are in. Even though you may see nothing but darkness God is always offering you a light.  Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and you will then start to see how beautiful you are.  Your will then be able to step back tilt your head slightly and make sense out of what you thought was just a mess of colors. You will be able to see the whole picture that God was painting.  I know that it may not seem like there is any rhyme or reason for the things that you are going through, but I promise you that if you give it to God you will see a change for the better.  All things are working for your good, Dear Reader, and you will find that you are right where God wanted you to be.  You are more than a beautiful mess, you are an undiscovered treasure, you are a masterpiece because in you there is a piece of the Master.  You are beauty in its uncut form.  Keep looking up Dear Reader and know that your mess is just another reason for God to bless.  Now go forth and be beautiful today, and always.

You are beautiful, loved, and blessed

John Reed