Beauty
The world is so beautiful today. The trees are all dressed in pink blossoms and everytime I walk to the library, petals fall all around me and I just want to sit on the grass and take in all the beauty around.
God is so beautiful. It is us who create the ugly things. Most of all these few days I have realised that man is so imperfect. Man-made groups are imperfect. The most we can do is seek after His beauty. But even then so often we fall short.
It is us who have the ugly things inside us. Lust, envy, pride, hatred, dissension, wanting others to see us, wanting to be exalted above everyone else. Not having enough of his heart. Each one of us is guilty of that, not knowing His heart. Knowing about Him, but not knowing Him, proclaiming Him in public and not running after Him in secret, making ourselves out to be good people and hiding our weaknesses which should magnify His strength.
I see beauty around me. But I also see so much ugliness around me. Help me to run, run, run, after you, and let your beauty shine so bright in my life. And let me not lose sight of the beauty in others too.
God is so beautiful. It is us who create the ugly things. Most of all these few days I have realised that man is so imperfect. Man-made groups are imperfect. The most we can do is seek after His beauty. But even then so often we fall short.
It is us who have the ugly things inside us. Lust, envy, pride, hatred, dissension, wanting others to see us, wanting to be exalted above everyone else. Not having enough of his heart. Each one of us is guilty of that, not knowing His heart. Knowing about Him, but not knowing Him, proclaiming Him in public and not running after Him in secret, making ourselves out to be good people and hiding our weaknesses which should magnify His strength.
I see beauty around me. But I also see so much ugliness around me. Help me to run, run, run, after you, and let your beauty shine so bright in my life. And let me not lose sight of the beauty in others too.
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The trees are truly beautiful at the moment, nature is always beautiful.
It often seems to me that man is the rogue element in this world - the only mistake? I don't know.
We certainly mess things up a lot though, we might learn in time, just a matter of moving in the right direction. It's hard to tell where we're heading sometimes though.
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Orbling, at 3:29 am
Well done on a nice blog Ruth. I was searching for information on Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa and came across your post Beauty - not quite what I was looking for related to Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa but very interesting all the same!
Well we're already into 2006 and I wish you all the best. I'm doing a lot of original work on Leonardo, including looking in detail at the technical drawings of machines and human anatomy. We're also publishing a detailed analysis of the Last Supper and Annunciation, which should be quite interesting.
If you do have a moment, please take a look at our latest galery on: Leonardo da Vinci .
Wishing you well in the new year! Amon
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Anonymous, at 7:30 am
Well done on a nice blog Ruth. I was searching for information on Leonardo da Vinci and came across your post Beauty - not quite what I was looking for related to Leonardo da Vinci but very interesting all the same!
Well we're already into 2006 and I wish you all the best. I'm doing a lot of original work on Leonardo, including looking in detail at the technical drawings of machines and human anatomy. We're also publishing a detailed analysis of the Last Supper and Annunciation, which should be quite interesting.
If you do have a moment, please take a look at our latest galery on: Leonardo da Vinci .
Wishing you well in the new year! Amon
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