Beautiful

So living beautifully is something that keeps popping up in my life lately.

Its said that saying "your beautiful" to a girl is the nicest thing you can say, and also if its said to you, it means whoever is saying it really likes you.

But being beautiful doesn't rely upon someones opinion, or it shouldn't at least, and being a beautiful person isn't just about the outside.

So back in march i thought I'd created a new concept of "living Beautifully" and figured this should contain:
- The way you look after yourself and treat your body.
so eating good things, and being healthy, not to much drinking that kinda thing. But also the way you present yourself, i have quite strong opinions on how people should present themselves but I'm not going to go into that now, but think people should care about how they appear in a way of showing respect to themselves.
- The way you treat other people.
in my little plan this was generally being loving towards people, and actually that's just a nice thing to do.
- How you conduct your feelings
SO for me this meant not exploding how I feel all over face book and moaning at every single person possible about how i felt, and instead dealing with why i felt how i felt, and not taking it out on other people.
- Finally.
God time, bible prayer that kind of thing!
also decided killing everyone with kindness was a good plan!

I was quite happy in the knowledge id created this concept and told one of my friends about it... and did it for a while then let it slip...

Then as i was sat in a morning talk at Spring Harvest the speaker started talking about the marks of a beautiful life, turns out a guy called Dr Hans Rookmaaker had come up with the same thing but well, a lot better!
- Friendship
"if we could just be friendlier maybe we wouldn't need so many new activities"
- Humility
-Pace
Jesus wasn't in a hurry
- Place
He knew where he was from
- Skill
had a trade to contribute to society
- Learning
-Fun
Jesus loved life and we should actively seek Joy and fun
So his kinda made a lot more sense, and i thought about this for a while THEN

At my church weekend the topic of the weekend was....
Beautiful church...
and basically what it took a whole weekend to explain was that a beautiful church is made up of:
praise, power and love.
and have time to listen, have praise, have love


After all of this I kind of figured Beautiful living isn't something you can put in a box, or just have one way of doing it. Its possibly more a personal thing, to do with how different people see their own lives and feel about themselves.
Even as I write this it still challenges me actually what parts of my life aren't beautiful, and what can i do about them.