Have you ever stopped to notice
the patterns in the leaves? The array of colours that are displayed right
before us? Or the intricate details of the bark on a tree? How often do you
take time to just be still? Or is life just always on the go, full of worry and
stress?
Today I took my run around
Princes Park as I have been doing for a while now. Most days I crank the tunes,
blocking out the world around me and go, but today I felt the need to just
allow the sounds of busyness around me be the sound track I ran to.
As I begun my cool down walk, I
noticed how many leaves where on the ground, the colours and the detail on each
leaf through patterns and shapes. Normally the sound of the crunching beneath
my feet is blocked out but today each step I took, I heard the crunching of the
gravel and leaves.
As I walked I begun to get creatively
inspired, I thought back to my Design course when we sat in the park and drew
the textures of trees, the textures of the brick paving and the huge roots of
the trees shading us from the blaring sun. I remember at the time thinking not much of
it, but just plodding through and completing the exercises to enable me to pass
my course.
Today I found myself collecting
pieces along the way so that I could revisit these artistic adventures, and to
now have a new appreciation for the God who made this beauty that for so long I
have ignored and taken for granted.
Life for me at times, okay most
of the time, is extremely busy! Today as I took in the patterns, colours and
sounds around me, I felt God saying to me to just slow down. I felt extremely encouraged
to take time to enjoy His creation, to be inspired through the creativity
around me and to allow Him to speak to me.
Imagine if we all just took
some time out from our busy days to notice the small things that we look past
each day. What kind of inspiration we would gain, how God could speak to us
through these things, if we just allowed ourselves to be still.
Matthew 10: 30 “and even the very hairs of your head are all
numbered”.
It blows my mind that God knows
me so intricately, even more so than the intricate leaves that I collected
today. I am so thankful that today I slowed down and took in the small things
around me, because I have been inspired, lifted and encouraged.
Stay tuned for some products of
that creative inspiration…
items collected along my walk today
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