The Constancy of Light In Beauty

Points of Light, consider this...

Aesthetic beauty. Internal happiness. Intrinsic eye. Beauty, color, and the need for light. When you spend your life engulfed in darkness while always trying to find light so you can see light's colors, and in those colors find true beauty, I think that's when you can look back to reflect on life's realities. I find beauty in a certain mix of colors; in those colors, I find warmth and comfort. So, light affords me a chance to see the beauty that makes me happy and when I'm happy, well, I smile. Yes, a happy, smiling Tod w/ only one d is an awesome Tod w/ only one d, and happy smiles are a contagion worth nearness. Points Of Light, that's why I do this blog!

But each individual's eye has a lens for a different palette of color even while light is invariably a steady constant. Obviously, I might look at a woman and catch the light of her joy, wit, and intelligence, and find those colors beautiful, while another man only catches her light in a particular palette of color found in the visage of her form to find beauty. Likewise, shine the light of Alison Krauss's words on my color palette and I'll find beauty deeply touching my heart, making me smile in my happiness when I hear her saying "It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart without saying a word you can light up the dark. Try as I may I could never explain what I hear when you don't say a thing." At the same time, it'll not be true for someone else who'll find just as much light, color, beauty, and happy smiles hearing Katy Perry saying "I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter dancing through the fire. Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar louder, louder than a lion. Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar." The thing is, there's beauty in how beauty isn't static or stagnant. Said another way, when we can accept the fact that we can find beauty where someone else doesn't and when someone else can find beauty where we don't, with the steadfast constancy of light, we receive a wonderful opportunity to discover many disparate colors and find unexpected beauty in this difference as well.

Let me look at this light, color, beauty, and happiness in this way as a Christian. I recently wrote this concerning Jesus, "I mean that while we were God’s enemies, he made friends with us through his Son’s death." Then I remembered how hard love works, how love never considers anything from within because love is always looking outward at the other person. With this in mind, I remembered what Jesus said, "The greatest love people can show is to die for their friends."

I went on to write, "This is where what I said from the very beginning became so very real. What did I say? It's astonishing how just living life can sometimes cause you to study the amazing, beautiful, and out-of-ordinary things people can do, those things that seem impossible. This can force one's internal contemplation to be deep. Easier said than done, I can only say a Christian (but all of us really), ought to be compelled to do a thing without any consideration of the self. Love is the only consideration, and love never takes time to think of itself."

I could draw this part out in some sort of huge commentary, but suffice it to say light is always constant, but people aren't. Every person's inner beauty is as different and varied as in what they individually find to be beautiful. So, in the constancy of light, we absolutely find color, while beauty is an individualistic, intrinsic choice. In the way we're tending with our present social construct, many of us, including myself, forget Jesus relished in the consistency of a steadfast, constant light. He sees my beauty is as different from your beauty, as your beauty is different from the stranger's beauty who was standing next to you the last time you stood in the checkout line at the store. Love allowed Him to see these disparate colors from all of us and find something wonderfully beautiful in all of us. That was and should always be our example to find beauty in our differences, because, after all, Light will always be a constant.

As Always,

Love and Peace,

Tod /with only one d