beauty

There is beauty in a life. View black and white photos of elderly people where their faces mark the decisions they have made in their lives. Listen to singers reciting verses for the crowds and letting their tongues be like the pen of a gifted writer as words float on the air to eager ears. There are many soulful matters swirling around these days and because life is fleeting, we are to absorb with our eyes, soak up the music and let beauty wash over us as we ride the tides of change ~ especially in our world today.

The ugliness gets in the way of the beauty. Maybe we need a daily spiritual purging. When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. Rumi It’s when God walks through the rooms of our lives and shines the light on the messes - the dishes in the sink, clothes strewn on the bedroom floor and tufts of hair in the shower. Something has to change - the dirt needs to go. Evil creeps around sniffing at the air, messing things up and searching for a new victim. We have forgotten Eden, left it in the distant past and now live in our present paradise with our sagging couches, cheap idols and fences that separate us.

But when one sees the beauty that God sees, we can shine our radiant lights. Those who are blinded or get uncomfortable with those of us who shine too brightly, have shut themselves off from the Divine and closed themselves to the heavenly realms. They are concerned about self, ego and pleasures of the now. And where’s the beauty in forgetting that we are children of the Light made to shine God’s love through us? It’s time to pull out the prayer mats, ask forgiveness from the Jesus who is so readily accessible and transform the inner rooms and clean up our acts. It’s time to act like a believer!

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9