let me love You anew.

as i was making scrambled eggs for breakfast, philippe reminded me of how beautiful the view is. how many people get to wake up, look out the window, and see a view like this? it's incredible.i've only been here a month and a half, and already the view began to seem mundane. when you see the same beauty over and over again, does it lose its beauty? does it lose its perfection? or is it only the perception of the viewer? because our view of the adriatic sea every morning? it doesn't change. it's still just as beautiful. but i lose sight of that beauty.

i wonder if it's the same way with God. when i'm close to Him, everything seems so beautiful, so wonderful, so new and ... perfect. and then i grow accustomed to it. i lose sight of the real beauty of knowing and being close to the Lord. the beautiful becomes the mundane. the thing is, it isn't the Lord's beauty that changes, but only my perception of it.

it's like when you're reading a good book. if you put it down for a while, you usually forget just how good it was. you have to go back, reread parts of it so that you can get excited again about that book. when i'm not close to Lord, i don't know what i'm missing out on. if i don't read my Bible, i forget how wonderful it is. if i stop talking to Jesus, i forget how much i loved spending time with Him.

Jesus, open my eyes to your beauty again.
in the words of shane and shane, i want to yearn for you. i want to burn with passion over you.
this life doesn't mean anything without Jesus.
let us see this beautiful view anew every morning. let us never fall into a mundane Christianity.