Is beauty an image? A reflection? A perception? An emanation? An illumination?
Ralph Waldo Emerson was definitely onto something when he wrote:
No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty.
Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe.
God is the All-Fair.
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
But beauty in nature is not ultimate.
It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty...
And I would add:
This herald of an inward and eternal beauty calls to the souls of men
to come and enter into a relationship with the author of all beauty,
the Creator Himself.
For we are His image bearers.
For we are His image bearers.
We are beings made in His image and stamped with an indelible longing
for a grace and beauty that would transform us from within...
Can I get an Amen?
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