an inspirational photoblog discovering beauty all around us

Because of the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,
To shine upon those who sit in darkness
and the shadow of death,
To guide our feet into the way of peace.
~ Luke 1:78-79

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful;
for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower,
and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

… we wait for the blessed hope—
the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ
~ Titus 2:13

I see Your face in every sunrise
The colours of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakened in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say
You’re beautiful
~ Phil Wickham

Someday we are going to see God in His completeness, face-to-face.
Now all that I know is hazy and blurred,
but then I will see everything clearly…
~ 1 Cor 13:12

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky.
Behind me and before me is God
and I have no fears.
~ Helen Keller

There ought to be a way to combine “autumn” and “morning” into one word,
the combination of the two is special enough to be its own entity.
~ Terri Guillemets

It was an early morning well rewarded:
first waiting in the dark,
next getting rained on periodically,
then being treated to this living canvas of light, shadow, shifting forms, colour,
and finally watching the Artist’s vivid brushstroke spread across the sky.

Breathe on me the poems and songs yet to be written …
~ Ashley Cornwell

You’ll never know what’s waiting for you on the other side
until you swing wide those gates and find out