Sunday, June 10, 2012

Beauty Is A Gift Of Incalculable Wisdom


Psalm 66-69

“You (God) are like the wings of a dove
covered with silver,
And its pinions with glistening
         gold.”
                           68:13b

It is almost unfathomable that humans can take 26 symbols, our alphabet, and combine them with our heart and soul and come up with beauty such as this?  Beauty is one of the greatest gifts of God and one of the staunch critics of the biological evolutionary theory. 

“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief…”
                  William Shakespeare

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill,
He sounds to blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low,
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
I’ve never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by.
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry
Did you ever see a robin weap
When leaves begin to die
Like me he’s lost the will to live,
I’m so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky.
And as I wonder where you are
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
                  Hank Williams

Beauty is a gift of incalculable wisdom.

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