Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes the beauty is so deep it pierces us with longing. For what? For life as it was meant to be. Beauty reminds us of an Eden we have never known, but somehow our hearts were created for.
Stasi EldredgeIt is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky!
Stasi EldredgeWhat if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?
Stasi EldredgeThe word ezer is used only twenty other places in the entire Old Testament. And in every other instance the person being described is God himself, when you need him to come through for you desperately.
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