So much in this life represents pain, hardship, drudgery, loss and responsibility. This life is not for the faint in heart. For many it’s not only years but decades of walking through trial after trial.
Yet there is a beautiful gift of God which is available to us all when we have eyes to see it and ears to hear it. One word: beauty. The words that connect with beauty are delight, joy, creativity, laughter, freedom, connection, childlikeness. It’s the things that bring colour to life and awaken the soul to God Himself.
The grace of God and beauty go hand in hand. The grace of God is the undeserved loving kindness of a Father who gives without measure. And beauty is everywhere. The beauty of a child’s laughter. The beauty of a kind word from another. The beauty of creating. The beauty of laughing with delight. The beauty of being loved and known by a friend. The beauty of being seen and heard. The beauty of belonging. The beauty of holding onto hope when life screams to give up.
Beauty is what makes life worth living. When the difficulties of life become so heavy, its beauty that restores us and brings us to the throne of grace before a God that wants nothing more than to give us, not only good gifts, but also His very self. He is the creative God that created beauty- He spoke it into being at the beginning of creation.
This world threatens to rob us of every joy, every delight, and distort every good thing into something it shouldn’t be. Thank goodness that isn’t the end of the story. God didn’t leave us at the fall when all turned to chaos. He didn’t walk away. He still doesn’t abandon us when we continually sin every day. When our every thought is self-absorbed.
Instead He draws us back to Himself over and over again through beauty. When all our energy is spent and nothing makes sense anymore may beauty be the thing to bring us back. May beauty awaken us to a God who loves us with abandon. A loving Father who delights in His children. That is where we truly belong. In His arms. In His presence. And there is nothing that sings a song of beauty more than that.
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