There are times when life allows you to see the clarity of life that can often be overlooked. It is our 37th wedding anniversary and we are celebrating in Ashville NC. Yesterday we toured the Biltmore house and gardens. It does a man good to see that kind of wealth on display. These were not just wealthy people but people with a very sincere commitment to beauty, style, and what it meant to be a human being. They cared for great literature, art, horticulture, history, and human advancements in science, and care for the forests, mountains, and lands. It was such a meaningful experience to see what unlimited funds could create when the human mind is turned toward these things. They were also elegantly committed to community and for not only the comfort of their guests but for the flourishing of their humanity in both body, heart, and soul. I have no idea the moral character of these people but it was certainly refreshing to glimpse into the lives of those from a different era and to see what massive resources guided by sincere vision, can accomplish. This was not a display of ostentatiousness but of minds and hearts turned toward the kindness of attention to beauty and a desire to live in community. And it gifted Betty and me, to see modeled with unlimited resources what we have long known with limited ones, beauty is a sincere pronouncement that God Is.
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| Because of the virus, we almost had the place to ourselves. |
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