Lately I have been so blessed to see so much beauty. I´m not talking about Hollywood type beauty, I´m talking about real-life, beautiful acts from beautiful people beauty.

Here´s what I mean...

On Sunday, we were all just sitting around watching a movie when Jorge started to massage the top of Claudia´s feet (she kept her ballerina style shoes on), and he must have done it for a good 20 minutes or so. Then, after he was done, he finished by kissing both of her feet. Not even 5 minutes passed by when he started giving Alexis a back massage. This little 10 year-old boy is already learning how to be like Jesus. It´s the small things that matter and make such a big impression on other people´s hearts.

Yesterday, I went with Chloe and Claudia to visit someone in a nearby city. They really weren´t too excited to go, but they decided to go to be there for their friend and support her. I could tell they were uncomfortable the entire time, but they were very polite. Claudia tried everything that was given to her and ate even when she didn´t like it. I was so proud as to how the two of them handled themselves. It is when we love people that are extremely different than us and that we might not be able to understand when they can see the love of God shine through us.

I have really been enjoying getting to know Bob and Joy and their family more. I don´t know why it amazes me so much to see Joy sitting and reading a book with one of the boys or playing a memory game with them, or even just giving them back or neck massages. I also don´t know why it is so wonderful to witness Bob giving the boys hugs (and even kisses at times) or even just how he shares devotions and the word of God with them daily. This is beauty. This is what life is all about.

Here, on this earth, the point of life is to bring people to Christ. It´s to make an impact on other little lives that our heavenly Father loves so much. It´s to direct them to God. As one of the other refuge places for children puts it, the most important rule is to live your life by respecting God. Yes, this may be their first rule, but it´s the same as the first commandment in both the Old and New Testaments. If we live our life trying to respect God, we will be beautiful, because it´s His love and beauty that will be shining through us.