Beauty surrounds us. We are
more attuned to the lovely than the lousy by our very nature bestowed to us by
our Heavenly Father. For me, the word evokes music, of course, from the slow
cantabile of a Mozart violin concerto to “in the beauty of the lilies” in the
Battle Hymn of the Republic. That line reminds me that the glorious birth of
our Lord was a beautiful event with stars, songs, warm animals, and adoration
by shepherds, Magi, loving parents. We look to these things and not the musty
stable, damp cave, rough linen, and hay. And yet there is beauty in all these
things as well. Stalactites in a cave, the smell of fresh hewn wood, the
photo-micrograph of a simple bacterial cell. Nature is redolent with beauty: stars in the
heavens, the fragrance of blossoms, the songs of birds and insects.
Let us remember the beauty in
all things is a precious gift from God. There is a matchless beauty in the
blood from the crown of thorns and in the nail-pierced hands and lanced side.
That is the beauty of divine grace. Nothing is more beautiful than our
“Beautiful Savior”’s love and redeeming
sacrifice for us all. We are richly blessed in all things.
Shared by Dr. Franklyn Commisso
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