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Intruder Alert

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. Saul Bellow

Just when we think the ugly can't get any uglier beauty intrudes.  Sometimes in the most blunt of ways and other times in the most graceful of ways.  But beauty is the great intruder into our ugly.  Life includes both beauty and ugly and usually a perfect balance of the two.  Why?  Because without a balance of the two we would topple.  
Without the ugly we would live in a utopia like state, forgetting the need of people, forgetting that we can extend beyond ourselves to walk alongside our fellow mankind.  Too much ugly, however, keeps us in a pit of despair.  So we need the beauty.  We need the beauty to balance out all the ugly.  
The intruder beauty can manifest in a multitude of ways.  A bright smile in the middle of a trash heap in a third-world country.  A colorful flower popped up out of a famine parched land.  Handing a bag of food items and hygiene items to a homeless person.  A brilliant sunset in the middle of a terrible storm.  A loud, life-filled laugh from the person in danger of losing their life to an illness.  All rather unexpected but embraced when they appear.  I think you see what I mean.  Those intrusions of beauty balance out the ugly so we aren't overwhelmed.  
Look for intrusions of beauty in your life today and look for ways to intrude someones world with beauty as well.  Look for the unexpected and embrace it when it shows up.  Be the unexpected in someones world as well and you will find that beauty shows up two-fold.  

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