Beauty
Beauty is the key to abundant life we all long for. Beauty is fluid, it is ever changing, all around us, always. This is the best way I can describe it: when you drive down the road and pass a beautiful sunset but are too concerned with the traffic, you miss what is right in front of you. This is what I like to call our “heart eyes”- when we are spiritually blind it is a problem of the heart. When we simply go through the motions of life, we miss out on the “l-i-v-i-n” as Matthew McConaughey puts it. But beauty is patient, it will wait for you to recognize what a precious gift this life is.
The description of beauty is inspired by the story in Mark 8:22-26 where Jesus heals a blind man. “Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.”