Sunday, September 22, 2024
Sunday Reflection: Beauty
I grew up around people with a particular and wonderful superpower: to see beauty anywhere. It always seemed to me to be a form of God-connection; being able to see the corners of creation that others didn't. It's hard to articulate this exactly, but that feels connected to the way that so much great art has been inspired by the divine.
Over the course of my life, I've come to know people who are the opposite: who obsess over the ugly, the despoiled, the repulsive bits of the world around us. It's tiring to be with them, and it must be hard to see the world that way. I have to think that seeing creation this way must distance a person from the divine.
Yes, there are ugly things out there, stuff we humans have ruined, mostly. But it's worth it to see the good.
