Day 2: Inviting Beauty as a Daily Practice

 

If I may, I'd like to blend the Navajo Way Blessing with a favorite quote from G.K. Chesterton's book Orthodoxy and how I see these canopy of lights in my back room. 

"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.
(It has become beauty again)
 But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.
(It has become beauty again)
It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. 
(It has become beauty again)
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.
(It has become beauty again) 
 It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we."

What is this Divine creature, this Creator that Sets Us Free? Outside of time and space, Three-In-One, me jumping into their beauty, making four.
Beauty begetting, a hop, skip and a jump
Before, behind, above and around me.
Free to be. Free from the monotony. Free from letting life bother me so much. 
Turn on the lights. 
Look up and around
and smile.
Thank the ache in your chest.
Indulge in the beauty.
Because there really is so much more waiting.