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Pollard House
These are just a couple shots of the house I have been staying at (by myself, which, I might add, is kinda scary at night) in Idaho.
The house and everything around is so beautiful. I have been reminded how meaningless beauty can be if you have no one to share it with. This is, to me, one of the best defenses for the existence of God and his character that I can think of. If indeed He is Good and worthy of our praise and adoration, then the greatest thing He could do would be to create an awe-inspiring universe and then populate it with creation to share in its beauty and majesty.
When I really ponder this line of thinking I am simultaneously drawn to a place where I feel great pain and despair over just how badly we have marred this plan and also to a place where I feel enormous responsibility and gratitude for playing a role in recapturing this Divine agenda. This, I believe, is the great mystery and hope of God’s Kingdom! I am reminded of a line from C.S. Lewis’ novel, Till We Have Faces: “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing – to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from…my country, the place where I ought to have been born.”
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Joshua said...
1I’m not sure I would entirely agree with the idea that beauty is meaningless when you are alone. I know that wasn’t the point of your post, but it’s an interesting idea, and I think the contention that beauty is very meaningful even if you are alone is something to think more about.
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