EASTER: God is Beauty
- Linda
- Apr 20
- 1 min read
If we could but turn aside from the glare of the world and enter our native stillness, we would find ourselves quickening to new life in the eternal embrace. This is the subversive consolation of God, that sweet mercy that sees beyond our blunders and falsities. There we need feel no shame or guilt or anxiety. No storm can touch us there. In the presence of the God of Beauty our own beauty shines.
~John O'Donohue
A Beauty Blessing
As stillness in stone to silence is wed
May your heart be somewhere a God might dwell.
As a river flows in ideal sequence
May your soul discover time is presence.
As the moon absolves the dark of distance
May thought-light console your mind with brightness.
As the breath of light awakens color
May the dawn anoint your eyes with wonder.
As spring rain softens the earth with surprise
May your winter places be kissed by light.
As the ocean dreams to the joy of dance
May the grace of change bring you elegance.
As clay anchors a tree in light and wind
May your outer life grow from peace within.
As twilight fills night with bright horizons
May Beauty await you at home beyond.
~John O'Donohue, The invisible Embrace: Beauty
Song: I know that my redeemer liveth, Handel's Messiah
Francisca Kusi-Ababio (Gramophone Chorus, Ghana)
Resource:
O'Donohue, John. (2004) The Invisible Embrace: Beauty. New York: Harper Perennial.
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