The Beauty In Today

I went looking for the lining

Inside my cloud of darkest gray

Hoping to find a little silver

To get me through another day.

Then a voice said, “Child, look around you

At all the beauty that is here,

If I so clothe the lilies

Will I not care for you, My dear?”

So I rearranged my vision

I stopped looking at the clouds

And I focused on the flowers

And the beauty that abounds.

Soon my heart felt so much lighter

The sky turned from gray to blue

And I heard that soft voice whisper,

“Child, I am pleased with you.”

Though life is full of struggles

And sometimes I lose my way

God’s beauty is all around me

And His grace sufficient for today.