Old man with kindly eyes
Little boy climbing tree, laughing
Dogs barking, cows grazing, birds singing

Teenage girl serenely staring out the bay-window, thoughtfully, through cool gentle rain into the woods shrouded in mystery
Woman riding down the freeway on the back of her motorbike, hair blowing freely in the wind, radiant face soaking bright sunshine
Trees dancing in Autumn breeze
  
Children playing hop-scotch in the park
Grandmother tending the flower garden
Flowers opening in Spring of Life

Farmer looking over newly plowed field in the waning hours of evening
Family holding hands round the dinner table, heads bowed in prayer
Dolphins leaping through waves of Summer

Sister pitching baseball to her younger brother
Daddy riding little girl, squealing, on his shoulders
Snow falls in Winter crystal art painting earth and sky, and all the stars of heaven sing

Ah! There is beauty in the myriad faces of God smiling ten thousand times throughout the universe
Not all is twisted pain and suffering, not all bleak and somber  –  there is beauty
If only we have open heart and eyes to see and time for love and the breath-prayer of thank you