Treasures

36 degrees outside and I am walking to class early in the morning. I can see my breath as I am walking and I notice the frost on the trees. I am walking through the shade and all the sudden a beam of sunshine lights up the scenery as the sun shines over the trees and mountains in the distant. I hear birds start singing, some better than others. I take a second to stop and look around me. I am completely awestruck at all the beauty around me that God has created.

We live such busy and on the go lives that all of God’s treasures and beauties are passed by and go unnoticed. We are in such a hurry sometimes that we don’t even notice that in the morning God sings to us and all day long he tells us we’re beautiful. The birds in the morning are God’s way of singing to us and the beauty of His creation is His way of showing us that we are beautiful to Him. God has given us the opportunity to live in total happiness. He is constantly giving us treasures through words and sight and noises. Too often though we miss out on God’s treasure because we are too busy focusing on our own lives.

The other day I was walking around and saw two young children playing outside together. I noticed the huge smiles on their faces and it instantly made me smile. It made me wish that I could have the heart of a child. Where everything is cool and everyone is my friend. Where throwing a leave in the air and just watching is float to the ground is fun and makes me happy. Children are the best example of how to enjoy and see God’s treasures and beauty. Everything is a treasure from God to a child and there is no reason to not be happy and smile. I wonder what the world would look like if everyone had the heart of a child, where everyone enjoyed everything around them, loved everyone they met and took nothing for granted.

I remember awhile ago, hearing a story about the “Slow Club”. It was a story about a young girl and her father. They were walking together and the father was in a big hurry and the little girl was in no hurry, she kept stopping and was being really slow. The father asked his daughter if she would hurry up because he needed to be somewhere. The little girl looked up at her father and told him that she was not in a hurry because she was in the slow club. The dad looked at her a little confused, “What is the slow club?”. She told him the slow club is where you don’t have to be in a hurry or feel rushed, you can be slow and look around and enjoy everything around you. The father smiled at her and they keep on their way, noticing the beauty around them and having fun enjoying each other’s company.

I know that I want to join the slow club. I have already missed so many of God’s treasures from being in such a hurry all the time. God wants us to have full lives, but not so full that He is no longer noticed. Everyday God makes and places and comes up with treasures for us to see. God loves us so much and He wants us to be happy. It is time to start loving Him back by simply noticing things like the birds singing, a child’s smile or even just a sunny day.


Have you ever watched kids
on a merry-go-round
Or listened to the rain
slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast
Time is short
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day?
When you ask, “How are you?”
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast
Time is short
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Because you never had time
To call and say “Hi”?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast
Time is short
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away...
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.