Chrissy Jaeger-Topic of My Choosing

When we were talking about I think C.S. Lewis who first knew beauty when he saw his brother’s toy garden we got into the idea that beauty is not in the art but comes to us through the art. We long to experience beauty and to know it and feel it. We search for it as human beings in different things, that is why the extreme sport is so enticing. To almost taste death and come back again is like experience true otherness and beauty and still living. But, there has been a loss of desire in our nation. People today lose the sense of change that brings the “experience” of beauty. They settle for normalcy, in fact they start to want and desire normalcy because trying to get the “experience” seems impossible. And to desire the impossible is to thirst without any hope of water. So, people settle for what’s easy and desire it because at least their desire is satiated. But, this is where we have gone wrong. The desire is good, and it is true that it is never fully satiated and this is why… the experience, the beauty we seek, is only found in God. He fills us with imagination and transcendence and all the things we long for. It is our holy discontent to desire Him and know that it may never be fully satiated. But what we can know and the reason we continue to seek Him, or should continue to, is that He will give us a taste. Perhaps more so, He gives us art so that we can long, because one day that longing will be fulfilled. If we do not lack something than we cannot appreciate being given something. So, when we long for the fullness of God, and the day we receive it we will know the greatness of it, because we have been searching and longing and desiring it and getting only a taste of its goodness our entire lives.