the beauty in my day

Current mood: artistic i found that i was talking to myself a lot today. i wonder if that's another mark of a writer at heart. in the morning as i was getting ready, i was thinking about how i missed my long hair. there's really nothing i could do about it nor do i really hate my hair now. i was simply musing myself over the hairstyle of yester-year. but really, the more i thought about it, i had to admit that what i truly wished was that God could've allowed me the flexability to change my hair to whatever i wanted, whenever. i would love to have red hair one week, and thick, blond, wavy hair another week, and then dreads or a beautiful up-do afro on another week. whatever i felt like wearing or what ever i felt was the creative 'me' inside, i could just cut the old, grow a new and groom. i have always thought, since i was very little, that men have the upper hand in this reguard--that without spending any money, they could naturally grow a beard, or just a goatee, or sport sideburns or whatever their creative heart desired! but even so. the more i really began to contemplate the "non-issue," i realized that God is so amazingly creative! He is the author of diversity! even in hair. lol. what started out to be perhaps a hint a regret, perhaps a little envy, was nothing more than the ultimate lesson in artistic appreciation for what is beautiful in the diversity of people. later that day i had that same resolution visit my conscience, again. only, this time i was hearing my friend play his trumpet. the crisp, frolic sound of the trumpet excited my inner being. i was dancing (inwardly) and was totally enamored (mentally) by the beauty of such an amazing rapsody of sound. and so the thought occurred again at how God was the author of such rich and invigorating sounds as the music i was enjoying. and then my thoughts turned from the word "beauty" to the word "majesty"--so that what i was appreciating as 'beautiful' had it's root in what was truly 'majestic'. C.S. Lewis (borrowing from Plato's Cave theory) describes these moments as encounters with the impressions of true Reality--suggesting that what is "real" is anything that is good and is ultimately of God. so there i leave you with my thoughts of the day.