Dear Deep Thinker, fearfully and wonderfully made, keep on providing us with compositions that will leave us ruminating on them while we are doing mundane chores, driving down long roads or not wanting to sleep. . . . As a reformed aesthete, I still get great pleasure from gardening, decorating, musing over design, etc. There has never been a color I didn't like or a natural landscape that I didn't relish. Thankfully, at my advanced age, I can say the Spirit has been refining me over the decades, to take this self-made idol called beauty off its pedestal and put it in its proper place.
Dear Deep Thinker, fearfully and wonderfully made, keep on providing us with compositions that will leave us ruminating on them while we are doing mundane chores, driving down long roads or not wanting to sleep. . . . As a reformed aesthete, I still get great pleasure from gardening, decorating, musing over design, etc. There has never been a color I didn't like or a natural landscape that I didn't relish. Thankfully, at my advanced age, I can say the Spirit has been refining me over the decades, to take this self-made idol called beauty off its pedestal and put it in its proper place.
This reminds me of many wonderful conversations. Grateful for your beautiful prose, gracious theology, and charity.