"the more we see the more we love you, God" - King of Wonders, CompassionArt
this week, i have been surrounded by God's beauty and creativity. God is the ultimate everything, but one thing i always forget is that he is the ultimate ideal of beauty, and it's not in looks, and it's not tangible, rather, it's seen through everything he creates and everything that he is.
When five creatives were interviewed by frankie magazine, megan washington, a musician answered the question "what does beauty mean?" with "wabi sabi... a Japanese aesthetic that focuses on transience and imperfection. Or incompleteness. Flaws are what make us beautiful". perhaps that's humans' way of justifying human beauty, but i believe that God is beautiful because of his perfection. why do humans always chase perfection? because perfection is beauty, because we live in a flawed world and we are inbuilt with a sense that the impossibility of perfection is beautiful.
i just look outside and stand in awe at the patterns, colours, textures, movement, engineering of everything he has created. he was the first one who created leopard and zebra prints, and i believe, the best at it.
and it's amazing how all of this creativity can be expressed. last weekend, i attended my school music camp, and i am continually inspired by the amazing people i interact with everyday, they are all so talented! last night, i attended the unit 3 drama ensemble evening for my friends, they did the most amazing job, and i just cannot stop thinking how much talent God has blessed my year level with, and the amazing potential that everybody has.
God is beautiful, and he has given us so many outlets to express this beauty - in art, in music, in drama, in dance... the list is endless, and so are the qualities that he holds. he is so perfect.
and so, as humans, it may be our flaws that make us unique, however, it is because we are made in God's image that we are beautiful.
1 comment:
Dani! That was a very insightful post. I think it's true that we tend to admire perfection and regard it as beautiful. However, i think what's more beautiful is the free-will that God's given us to choose to love something/someone that not perfect. The ability to regard something as beautiful because of their imperfection. To love someone because they're not perfect. That's very much like Christ's love for us, isn't it?
Anyway, hope you're doing well! I didn't know that you still blogged. I just thought of you and dropped by your blog.
God bless! :)
zac
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