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Opening Prayer: Lord God, help us to trust you, whatever season we find ourselves in.  Amen.

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

Journal: What is your season of life these days?  What is beautiful in your life right now?  What is he making beautiful?  What is hard?  How is He making the hard into the beautiful?

Reflection: He has made everything beautiful in its time. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)  I don't know about you, but I have a difficult time just letting things be beautiful.  It seems like I am always trying to analyze, or explain, or turn something into a message (or a blog post), rather than simply enjoying the beauty of it.  If, indeed, God has made everything beautiful in its own time, why not just go with it?  Why not take what he has said for what it is, and simply embrace and enjoy the beauty of the thing (or person, or season, or event) that is before (or within) us?  Let it be beautiful.  Embrace the beauty.  Enjoy the beauty.  Or wait patiently for the beauty he is making.  Let it wash over you and transform you—that's what beauty does.  That's who God is.

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Closing Prayer: Lord God, do a beautiful work in and through us this day, for you make everything beautiful in its time.  Make us beautiful.  Amen.