These, our own particular brand of God, are usually chosen based on some mixture of our own personal spiritual needs, and whatever we were taught about God in our formative years.
In recent musings I have wondered what would be different if we were to come to know God as the author of Beauty.
David, in wonder, cries aloud from the place of prayer, "From zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth."
In seemingly ecstatic utterance Augustine writes in his confessions, "O Beauty, ever ancient, ever new!"
Dear friends, what would it be like to know the one who is "perfect in beauty"?
I wonder if our creations would be more brilliant; I wonder if we would realize the true beauty that lies within us, the Imago Dei. Perhaps most importantly for me, I have wondered what presuppositions I have about God will be shattered in the wake of my newfound revelation of who God is.
But come what may, this is all that I have come to desire, "to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord."
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