“Art can warm even a chilled and sunless soul to an exalted spiritual experience. Through art, we occasionally receive – indistinctly, briefly – revelations the likes of which cannot be achieved by rational thought.
It is like the small mirror of legend, you look into it but instead of yourself, you glimpse for a moment, the Inaccessible, a realm forever beyond reach. And your soul begins to ache.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Art can move us beyond what we can see, hear or touch with our normal human senses. It can truly give us a glimpse into beauty which is close to God’s heart.
Delight today in a piece of art and allow it to move you into a place of beauty.
Grace and peace,
Deb
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
beauty
Posted by deb at 12:01 AM
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Solzhenitsyn expresses the soul's ache as only a Russian can. I know, I am writing this from Russia! Art, of course, is our feeble attempt to reflect or imitate the artistry of the Creator of all beauty, which always draws us into a reality that is bigger than ourselves, The Reality that is God, His glory, His truth, His grace and His truth, which is the source and essence of our life - the life for which the soul of mankind aches!
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