Tag Archives: beauty

Why do we respond to beauty like we do?

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Jill

When we see beauty of all sorts: autumn leaves, spring flowers, summer fruit, we yearn for something which can hardly be put into words. We record beauty — in our minds or through paintings or by photographs — because beauty … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity | Tagged beauty, beauty speaks, C.S. Lewis, longing, longing for another place, Psalm 27, Psalm 96, the weight of glory, what am I looking for, what am I yearning for, yearning | Leave a comment

delight with a purpose

Posted on November 6, 2016 by Jill

Rapt were my senses at this delectable view… If so much excellence abide below, How excellent is he that dwells on high? Whose power and beauty by his works we know. Sure he is goodness, wisdom, glory, light… From: The … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity | Tagged attributes of God, beauty, delectable view, delight leads to thoughts of God, excellence, God's good gifts, nature pointing to God, pointers, power, Psalm 8:1, thankful heart, thankfulness, The complete works of Anne Bradstreet, turning our thoughts to God | Leave a comment

unexpected tragedy and prayer through it

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Jill

A couple nights ago in my town a car filled with young college girls wrecked. Four girls, aged 19 and 20, are no longer alive. Their moms and dads sent their daughters off to college last August, just as I … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, God | Tagged ashes, beauty, car wreck, Christianity, faith, God, Isaiah 61:3, Jesus, Kathy Randall, Prayer, tragedy, UGA car crash | 10 Comments

A royal diadem in the hand of God?

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Jill

Since God is infinite, eternal and unchangeable — and we are not — the depths of the layers of His words to us are unplumbable. We can study a verse one year and think we’ve absorbed all He has to … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Faith, God | Tagged beautiful, beauty, crown, diadem, diadem in hand of God, God's kingdom, Isaiah 62:3, king, queen, royalty, victory | 8 Comments

Make New Year’s resolutions, but don’t get stuck staring at the highway sign

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Jill

What if you resolve to daily search out at least one beautiful or amazing thing this new year? Small things, or once-in-a-lifetime things, or beautiful moments recognized in the middle of the mundane — all mixed up together, there for … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Faith, God | Tagged 2016, amazing, awe, beauty, beauty as signpost, Lewis, New Year's resolutions, Psalm 40:5, Resolutions, resolve, surprised | Leave a comment

Beauty was created by God for a purpose

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Jill

What if we were to realize that every sunset viewed, every sexual intimacy enjoyed, every favorite food savored, every song sung or listened to, every home decorated, and every rich moment enjoyed in this life isn’t ultimately about itself but … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Faith, God | Tagged beauty, creation, delight in God, enjoying God, praise, purpose of beauty, Steve DeWitt, thanksgiving, wonder and worship | Leave a comment

captivated by His beauty

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Jill

This past Sunday, a song I’d not thought of in months was sung in my church. Convicting and stirring, its words were ones I’d thought a lot about last year, but had moved on from in the busy rush of … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Faith, God, Jesus | Tagged beauty, Captivated by His beauty, Hast thou heard Him, idols, Indelible Grace, Jesus, Jesus' beauty, Ora Rowen, stoning of Stephen | Leave a comment

ferns and summer and rays of sunlight

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Jill

Summer smells and sounds, summer colors and places and memories. Which, if you imagine your happiest summer moment, come to mind? Do you dream of a cool haven tucked away in the deep green of a wooded wonderland? Do … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Faith, God | Tagged beauty, C.S. Lewis, frustrated, happiness, heaven, home, idols, Jesus Christ's supremacy, longing, pointers, preferences, satisfaction, summer, twisted, wonder, worship | 2 Comments

Why is water so shiny?

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Jill

I wonder why water is so shiny. I don’t mean that I wonder at the physics behind glinting sunlight reflected on a late-afternoon river. I don’t want to understand the formula for the change in the direction of a light … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Faith, God | Tagged beauty, Hebrews 1:2-3, Jesus Christ's supremacy, knowing God, Psalm 19, Revelation 21:23, Romans 1:20, shiny water, sunlight on water, water, wonder, worship | 3 Comments

Fading beauty’s purpose

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Jill

Bursting yellow blooms arriving to edge out winter’s brown landscape have, since childhood, made me happy. Each year, if forecasters predict a late winter dusting of snow, I worry over the green stalks whose eager beginnings have already peaked an … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Faith, God | Tagged beauty, beauty's purpose, daffodils, heaven, I Peter 1:23-25, idols, imperishable, Isaiah 40:6-8, Matthew Henry, perishable, purpose of fading beauty, spring | 4 Comments

This is all there is

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Jill

Her roles on the silver screen had made her an iconic sex symbol, and now, as she posed for the cameras these decades later, I recognized her as one of Hollywood’s most idolized stars. Her persona had been developed in … Continue reading →