A Beautiful Life

Beauty can be found all over, all we have to do is open our eyes and look and learn to be appreciative. Melissa over at The Inspired Room has set up her "12 Months of Goals" to help her live the life she wants to live. No marathons, unless that's what you want to do, just the simple everyday things we take for granted. Visit her web and learn more about it.

In January the goal was to concentrate on "Living a Balanced Life" and reflecting on the goals you can incorporate through out the year to help you meet that goal.

February's goal, and it continues on, is to find beauty everyday. That sure makes you look at different things and situations in a different way.

For the month of March the goal is organization. I don't know that I will ever be so organized as to ALWAYS know where EVERYTHING is or NEVER forget a date on the calendar, however, by organizing my life and my home it will help me to find peace and even more beauty. Here are some ways that I have found to organize and help me find peace and beauty in my part of the world.

• Daily routines around the house. I've made my list - I don't always get it done - but what I do get done gives me a sense of accomplishment.
  
• Daily scripture reading and prayer. Asking God to go before me ALWAYS brings peace and beauty to my day.
• Stop procrastinating, organization of the time - time management. Ok, I am very much working on (but improving) on the procrastination and when I use Nike's phrase "Just Do It", that brings so much simple beauty to my life because I am no longer worrying about getting it done.

I consider myself a fairly organized person, but reflecting on the goals is a good example of how much I need to do yet. For example, last weeks post was on the beauty around us. That's great I need to focus on that, but that was February's goal and this is March, see what I mean. A little behind but I am not going to beat myself up for it. I am going to take baby steps to a more simplistic life with the help of God and Melissa's goals this year.

Have a beautiful and organized week.

A Beautiful Life

Thank you Dee, over at Jumping Tandum for finding this wonderful idea from The Inspired Room & sharing it with us.

Melissa over at The Inspired Room really wanted to start this year off fresh and focused on living a beautiful life. That doesn’t mean an expensive or perfect life, or setting unrealistic resolutions, just living a life that is intentional on finding contentment and beauty every day. So often in the rush of life we miss out on what is really important. This is herway to keep herself enjoying life everyday with no regrets. Click here to see how the plan works.

The beauty I have seen today is not in color. The park I spent my lunch in could be considered bland- not much color because it is only March.

But what I did see/hear I saw with the eyes and ears of my heart. I sat there and read about prayer and then prayed. I listened to praise music. I could hear God in the music and in the wind as it rustled by. I could see Him in the words I was reading. I could see Him in the robins that flew by - telling us that spring is on it's way. I felt His love in the warmth of the sun as it shown on my back.

I am at peace.