Ordinary Beauty as Soul Care
This morning, I noticed the way the sunlight fell across the chipped mug on my table. Nothing dramatic. Just ordinary light on an ordinary cup. But it caught my breath.
In the middle years, it’s easy to believe your life has to be bigger, shinier, more meaningful than it feels. But ordinary beauty is not something to dismiss. It is soul care. It is God whispering, I am here, even in this.
You don’t have to travel far or curate your life for Instagram to notice beauty. Sometimes the smallest things are the most sacred.
Here are three ways to begin:
Pay attention to light.
Notice how it shifts across your kitchen floor. Watch the way it softens in the evening.Name one beautiful thing out loud.
Gratitude spoken — not just thought — lands differently in the soul.Capture small beauty.
Snap a photo of the flower by the road, the bread on your table, the smile line by your friend’s eyes.
Ordinary beauty doesn’t fix everything. But it can steady you. It can remind you of God’s nearness in the middle of your ordinary, imperfect life.
At The Table, we practice this together: noticing, naming, and holding beauty in the company of others.
If this is the kind of practice your soul longs for, there’s a chair waiting just for you.