{"id":389,"date":"2013-07-05T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T20:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2016-09-10T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T20:28:08","slug":"five-minute-friday-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/05\/five-minute-friday-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Minute Friday: Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for 5 minute Friday at Lisa-Jo&#8217;s hangout.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s prompt:<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful<\/p>\n<p>You know we think of this word and quite often the vision of a young woman comes to mind.\u00a0 Or, perhaps a landscape or sunrise or sunset.\u00a0 Or, for you, perhaps it\u2019s something else altogether.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped to think about those things that I attribute \u201cbeautiful\u201d to- a rose just blooming, a painted sky, the shape of a building, a child\u2019s smile, kind eyes, a certain color, the way the ocean moves, the sound of music, the grace of a doe.<\/p>\n<p>A partial list true, but what gets my attention is the unintentional hint in the word itself- the first two letters:\u00a0<strong>BE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>All these things reflect their purpose- to be what they were designed and purposed to be.\u00a0 And to see and appreciate the beauty we find there is to acknowledge the Designer\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>A few things I find beautiful:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-281\" src=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/moonrise1web.jpg\" alt=\"moonrise1web\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/moonrise1web.jpg 450w, https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/moonrise1web-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-319\" src=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rosespinkweb.jpg\" alt=\"rosespinkweb\" width=\"250\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rosespinkweb.jpg 250w, https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rosespinkweb-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-199\" src=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/doeweb.jpg\" alt=\"doeweb\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/doeweb.jpg 267w, https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/doeweb-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-82\" src=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wintertreeweb.jpg\" alt=\"wintertreeweb\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wintertreeweb.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wintertreeweb-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-365\" src=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/waterfallweb.jpg\" alt=\"waterfallweb\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/waterfallweb.jpg 267w, https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/waterfallweb-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62\" src=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1452.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1452\" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1452.jpg 4272w, https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1452-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1452-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1452-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_1452-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May you find beauty wherever you are today!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for 5 minute Friday at Lisa-Jo&#8217;s hangout. Today\u2019s prompt: Beautiful You know we think of this word and quite often the vision of a young woman comes to mind.\u00a0 Or, perhaps a landscape or sunrise or sunset.\u00a0 Or, for you, perhaps it\u2019s something else altogether. 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