**Sit quietly, eyes closed and in silence for one minute before reading.**
Technology
increases and our ability to fabricate beauty does as well. Colors are more
vivid, eyes widened and legs diminished. Beauty becomes an image rather than a
three-dimensional thing that we can touch, smell, see all around and hear
fully.
As beauty becomes more and more fabricated we settle for the two-dimensional
image on the screen. Rather than visiting the Grand Tetons we exchange an image
for the real thing. Rather than smell the aroma of sweet fruit plucked in
season we settle for a scratch and sniff sticker.
So we settle, beauty and life is fabricated and we settle. When we settle we
begin to exchange these images for the real thing. We lose an aspect of the joy
and gift of being human, the gift of being able to see, touch, feel and be
within beauty.
How will you choose to be in real beauty today? How will you choose to be in
beauty rather than live in images of the real thing?
**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**
I'm enjoying my cup of coffee on the lake dock, soaking up the newness of the day, the glorious sunrise, the flittering insects and the noises of morning amid the silence. It was the perfect time to read "Your Two Minutes". Just halfway through this description of why I am sitting outside this morning, a blue heron flew past me and a fish jumped up to the surface of the lake. The "real thing", the beauty God has created abounds and it is not missed on me.
ReplyDeleteOh, how wonderful!!! So refreshing to our souls!
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