So often we are distracted by what hovers and floats upon the surface of the severely or profoundly challenged: deformities, oddities, and abnormalities; never noticing the intricate and beautiful world right before our eyes--just beneath the surface.
Too often our eyes and minds become locked and focused upon the surface. It takes time and experience to see beneath the surface to discover a person's inner beauty and perfection of spirit.
I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to see beauty with a different set of eyes--eyes that see perfection in the flawed, brilliance in the broken, and intelligence in the imperfect.
Beauty--however flawed, broken, and imperfect--surrounds me. It beckons me to come near, to spend time, to admire.
--Allen Lujan
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