Beauty takes us outside of ourselves. Our preoccupations. Lifts us up. Makes us quiet. Makes us thankful. Makes us worship. All of creation started out as a shout of glorious beauty, a reflection of it's Maker. I've seen it happen across cultures and genders and all kinds of barriers, when a moment of beauty presents itself people stop to soak it in.
The human soul needs beauty in many ways like we need food for our physical body. That's why every culture has artists. That's why we create music and poetry and dance. We are the image of a God who is beautiful and creative. The power of beauty is to lift us out of what's hard. What hurts. What is mundane. To remind us that eternity is just around the corner.
Today I'm thankful that my job, even though it's a little frivolous, is to take moments and people and celebrate their beauty. Putting a little more pretty out in the world is not the worst thing ever.
High five, God. :)
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love this Crystal
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