Luci Shaw in her essay Beauty and the Creative Impulse explains that beauty in our world and lives is often overlooked. Beauty that can be seen throughout creation even in a mere conversation between friends can be forgotten. Shaw points out that through perversion and emptiness we have forsaken the importance of beauty. What exactly is this beauty that we are forgetting than? Beauty is essentially truth. Truth usually slaps us in the face, when we first hear it. But always when someones accepts truth, it clarifies areas that previously had been gray. A main component of God is truth, therefore making beauty and truth join as one. There is a special interconnecting relationship between truth and beauty that is so profound. I don’t think anyone can ever fully know the extent of this connection, until eternity. But I guess its my job to explore what this relationship means to me. Truth awakens my soul. Most people tend to not be receptive to correction or truth, and push its usefulness away. But as for me God has softened my heart to Him through the very “truths” I originally pushed away. Before I was saved I wanted to live life for me, and keep God on the sidelines. I had a wall up to those who tried to correct my ways. But I remember it began with a sunset one morning, something incredibly beautiful to get me to realize that God is something not to play with. And that day I began to learn that these truths I was ignored, were not meant to be played with. I think this is what beauty is realizing that all truth is Gods truth, and is this fact is true beauty. I feel that if us as a fallen people could realize all truth is Gods, they would find beauty in their situations, and lives. They would know that even in difficult times, God is true to what He says He is. They would see the beauty in even a negative situation. Our world would fall on its face before the Lord in recognition of His truth, glory and beauty.
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