Unnessarily Beautiful

  This morning, a friend and I walked to the runway here at ALERT to watch the sunrise. It amazes me that everyday God makes the world beautiful. You see it more on a campus like the ALERT campus just because nature is everywhere.
  I was thinking, God did not have to make the sunrise breath-taking, but He did. He did not have to take pastel shades of blue and molten gold and swirl them in the sky, but He did. God did not even have to give human beings the senses to see and process the beauty in the world around us, but He did.
  God did, however, give us the choice to acknowledge Him as the author of the beauty in the world around us or to reject Him. Whether we do or not is up to us. Do not reject God, do not turn your eyes away from Him and His beauty. Praise and acknowledge His goodness. Thank Him for being all He is to us everyday. Appreciate the unnecessary beauty of the sunrise.