"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder..."

I am a sentimental person. Little stuff that remains completely insignificant to others most likely has some sort of meaningful effect on me. For instance, as I was walking to my second class today, I had to go to a different building. So I simply walked across our small campus in the cold wind, resenting the fact that I had to wear a sweater AND a coat today. As I walked between buildings, I had my head down, just  pondering stuff as usual. Along the edge of the sidewalk I noticed a bunch of teeny tiny flowers, otherwise known as "weeds" to we beautiful lawn lovers. I absolutely had to laugh right then and there because as a little kid, I used to pick these things like they were roses! I would put together little bouquets of these so-called weeds, thinking they were the most beautiful thing in the world. I used to look at those tiny little purplish ones (no clue what they're called) and just wonder...."Why is this a weed to people? Who decided what makes a weed and what makes a flower?"
I thought, and still do think, that these intricate little blossoms right under our feet are beautiful works of art. They may not be significant to many, but they are worth acknowledging in my book. These little weedy flowers are just as much glorifying to God as His trees and mountains and oceans are. Why? Because He made them, because He revealed Himself to at least one person through them, and that one person is reminded of His glory and perfection and mightiness and LOVE every single time she sees one...

Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? I think so. But I also think that it really doesn't matter how you see things until God's love overtakes your heart. You could ask yourself, "If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, than what perscription glasses is the beholder wearing?" If your heart is full of darkness than many things will seem to be "weeds"; in the way and unnecessary, being uncaringly trampled under the feet of the impatient. If your wearing "the lenses of Scripture," how much different will your sight and perspective be! Put on the lens of Scripture and look for chances to see God's glory, even in the little things! He will blow you away!

"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof..." Psalm 24:1