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Beautiful Day

There is beauty in each day.  Don't miss it.  And there's beauty in so many things.  Beauty isn't confined to pretty flowers or scenic views.  Beauty can be and is found in that which on the surface might appear "ugly".  While walking through an East African slum a year and a half ago I saw with my eyes the ugliness of the slum but my heart saw the beauty of the people living in that slum as they carved out meaningful lives for themselves in the midst of the ugly.  Beauty does arise from ashes.

Beautiful Day

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