Where You Can Find Beauty

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This is how your life is already wonderful.

I’d like to talk to you about where you can find beautiful things so I had the chance to meet a lovely lady in Queretaro.

She’s in the interesting business of looking for missing persons. Its a tragic reality in Mexico that many many people go missing every year. You can see posters everywhere of please help us or our son or daughter to return safely home so we can see them again because our house is broken as a result of this tragedy or crime.

Now this young lady told me a story about finding a man who is a missing person. Well they found a body who they suspected might be this case or the man reported missing by his elderly father. They found this fellow is found dead under a bridge most likely of a drug overdose.

My friend went to the elderly man trying to be tactful saying maybe we can do a test, take some DNA. Of course the man was elderly but not senile. He was quite sound of mind, been around the block a few times and he could ascertain what might be happen.

The possible reason for asking for a DNA test. He said “I’m afraid I don’t know that part of town where there’s that laboratory. I haven’t been to that part of town for many years and I don’t know how to get there. I don’t have a car or a ride.”

So my friend offered to take him to the lab for a DNA sample to see if the dead man was really his son. So my friend took that old man to the laboratory and he had the test done.

Obviously he was quite upset and distraught and worrying about his son who might potentially be dead but even in this difficult time he received some comfort from my friend and her act of kindness and he thanked her warmly for giving her help to this old man in a difficult situation.

My friend looked in his eyes…now many people in this situation it might be so difficult for them that they might end up quitting their job because they realize the brutality of the world and these things that can happen.

People can go down wayward paths that unfortunately end in their death.

But my friend had this opportunity to comfort a fellow human being in need and rather from dissuade her from her path or career, rather it affirmed to her that these experiences are valuable. That she was doing something good.

That she was in the place where she could truly help people and she saw something beautiful about that.

My friend told me that story and I said “Thank you that is so wonderful that you would see something lovely about that situation that is so difficult.”

If my friend can see something lovely in that situation what does that say about the rest of our lives? What does that say about the perspective that we can take when we look at anything tragic or fortunate there might still be something beautiful about the situation because where you look for beauty you will find it.

Thank you for thinking beautifully, thank you for looking beautifully. Thank you for exercising your perspective and learning a little bit each day or month to see things in a way that allows tenderness into your heart.