La vie en rose!

In talking with my granddaughter, Allison a few months back she told me she loved the song La vie en rose by Louie Armstrong, intrigued by this I looked this beautiful song up on the net. As soon as I heard it I recognized it but had not thought of its title. In French this means "Life in Pink" or "Life in Rosy Hues" It was made popular by Edith Piaf who was nicknamed "Little Sparrow" because of her beautiful voice.

As I reminisce about Allison who will graduate from high school today, I couldn't help but think about this sweet girl who sees things that others might miss. I remember standing in front of a Norman Rockwell painting with Allison who was probably not more that 4 years old, she was mesmerized by the folksy characters portrayed by Rockwell. It was as if she could understand the artist and asked a question way beyond her years concerning a little boy in the scene. As a grandma I pondered this and was sure her genius would flourish, as she grew older. As her favorite song implies, she sees things in rosy hues, which is captured in her photography. When we see a common tree Allison sees the beautiful bark, or maybe deep holes formed by scarring catches her eye, when passing a wheat field she sees a photo op. One winter when Allison was here, she took pictures of the frozen field behind us, our rickety back porch and the road in front of our house and made it come alive because it was captured through the eyes of one who finds beauty in everything. She took pictures of the field in contrast to the warm morning sun rise, the road in front of our house was made lovely as her camera sat at ground level, capturing happy feet on a winter walk and my eyes filled with tears at a shot of herself on the rickety porch with the caption "I'm home!

Though the bible would never advocate not see things realisticly, it does have something to say about what we think about. Allison reminds me so much of one of my favorite scriptures in Philippians.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

This lovely young woman sees things in rosy hues, she sees life in pink but she is not deceived by the glamor and bling. She is comfortable in jeans and a funky hat but shines in a formal gown, she can be funny enough to be a perfect Gertrude McFluff but is serious enough to care for unborn children. She lives her life, even at 17, thinking on whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, excellent, praiseworthy. She loves the Lord who gave to her a glorious uniqueness, as she sees life in rosy hues. La vie en rose!