Constant reminders are to be provided to maintain healthy relationships, just as food is essential everyday; hence, reflection about the beauty of the one by your side will make you be healed and keep you blessed. Look around, turn beside - it’s a challenge - can you count the beauty that is kept around you? David suggests, “O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your possessions” (Ps 104:24). “Wonderful, marvellous, excellent” are the remarks the creations received from God as He made them perfect. Failures and mistakes are corrected at the cost of His Son’s life, for He maintains orders. Learn to see the good side of you and others, and make life easier, better, and beautiful. Dare not to declare anything or anyone, against your will, for you have not created them; they are kept for your advantage, “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.” (Mt 7:1-2). Paul, too, invites us to appreciate and acknowledge the beauty of persons that God has kept around us purposefully, “For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected” (1 Tim 4:4). Let’s take time and appreciate the goodness in us and everyone surrounding us.

Abba, thank you for the beautiful people that you have kept around us. Let your Spirit help us appreciate and be grateful, in Jesus’ Most Holy Name, Amen.