A man should hear a little music,
read a little poetry, and
see a fine picture every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares
may not obliterate the sense of the
beautiful implanted in the human soul.
~Johann Wolfgang Goethe
In her novel, THE COLOR PURPLE, Alice Walker maintains that God gets angry if a person walks by the color purple in a field and doesn’t notice it. So it is that at one point in the story the main character, Celie, is told to look at the purple flowers and then to embrace their beauty in spite of all the pain and suffering in her world. She is urged to see the good in them and acknowledge it because God placed them all on earth. After she learns the lesson, she has more respect for life and what it has to offer. It’s obvious that God puts a premium on beauty, not only for His own sake but for ours as well. Since we are made in His image, our souls cannot help but be implanted with a “sense of the beautiful” as Goethe suggests. Therein beauty feeds us spiritually and like a highway sign it points to God and His goodness. If we can find beauty, we can find God. He uses it as a way to speak to us and grow us in His image.
From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. ~Psalm 50:2 ✝
Sacred Touches 