THOUGHTS

May 20, 2020

This is the birthday of my mother, 

a beautiful soul who loved beauty, who is now at rest in heaven.

A revision of a post in 2014

Feasting the eyes on beauty, I can never be satiated.  Can anyone see enough of God's creation, the pull of the ocean, of the mountains and not say, "It is good," (things created) and "It is very good (dust to man, rib to woman)?  Yet sometimes we get our eyes fixated on lesser things failing to see the big picture, the view from God's perspective.  It's like a beautiful woman who, instead of capturing the eye with a smile, expects us to notice her painted toe nails.  If you saw her, would you notice them first?  Her fingernails? Her bobbles? Or her face, her eyes, her smile?

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others;

for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness;

and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

Audrey Hepburn

What does God see in His crowning achievement?  A happy countenance or a grumpy, frumpy face.  Let the breath of God once again breathe into His creation filling the heart with a fire that burns from within that glows, shining through with pure love.

God who created the skin, the lashes, the hair, the lips looks beyond the husk of life to the sweet kernel within.  How can we improve on His creation?  It is astonishing to think that His most beautiful fulfilment of His imagination is man and woman, yet He says,

"Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature..

for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance,

but the Lord looks at the heart." 

(I Samuel 16:7)

(Just kidding)

Ironically, the context of the story of Samuel finally finding David as he followed God's direction describes the youth as, 

"Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance."

(I Samuel 16:12)

God thought His creation was good.  His finished work very good.  Yet the heart?  Very, very good when a heart is completely His in love.  Surprisingly, when He wanted to express perfect love, what did He do? He gave a perfectly beautiful, sweet baby, His child.  What can we do with a God like that?