To See Through His Eyes

I had a conversation with a woman the other day and she told me the most profound and beautiful thing. We were talking about her dad, a photographer... and she told me, "My dad has an eye for beauty. Growing up, my dad would always pause and stop to show us things he found beautiful. It didn't matter whether we were on family trips, in whatever we were doing, my dad would always point things out and say "isn't that beautiful?" It wasn't that he just saw beauty, he shared it. It came to the point that when I was out on my own, I could see his work and know it was his before I ever read the name, because he had taught me how to see beauty through his eyes."

I find this so incredibly beautiful... because doesn't our Heavenly father do that with us? When we are young, he takes us into the world. He takes us by the hand and he leads us into places, and he shows us things that he finds beautiful. We know His heart by the things He calls beautiful. And if we grow with Him and journey with Him, our definition of beauty is shaped by learning to see beauty through His eyes. We begin to see as He see's. I think that is so amazing.

Then she shared "I ended up becoming and artist myself, because with a father like that, how could I not?" It was a beautiful picture of becoming more like her dad just because she spent time being around him... I just love that!!! I hope that, in spending time with my heavenly Father, a creator of beauty, that someday I can say "I became like my dad... because how could I not?" He is good.