Beauty

  Beauty, or rather beautiful. The word itself is something we give to anything we like or love, but what does it really mean? Why do we really call something cute, pretty, or beautiful? Is beauty really only skin deep? And is beauty really only within the eye of the beholder? 

 The dictionary definition of the word beautiful is "Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration". Now you must be wondering, what are you getting at here blogger? Well, if we take a closer look at the definition itself, then we can see how it doesn't necessarily mean a good thing. For instance, if we're to really go by the dictionary definition of beauty, then we can presume that anything that excites and pleases us is beautiful to us, correct? Well, then does that mean drugs, alcohol, and sins are beautiful? Because if so, I must have been born on the wrong side of everything.

 In the bible it says that God had created us in the image of himself, and both man and woman are alike to be so. To me this would only mean that God is the true definition of beauty. If He hated sin and helps us everyday in trying to abolish it, then sin and other bad things similar to it, must not be considered truly beautiful. If we are to truly understand what beauty really means, then the only way to find out would be to go to God directly, right? Afterall, if we're made to look like Him and He created everything around us, then He must truly know what the definition of beauty is because I can't find anything more beautiful than what He's created. With true beauty comes true adoration and love for what you see and continue to seek. 

 My true example of true beauty would be nature. Nothing in this world surpass trying to understand how such massive mountains formed to give us such high views or miles of fields of corn or wheat. Nature is the closest way I can get to better understanding God and what true beauty means. Everyday I find another reason in nature to try and grow closer with God. 

 You can try it too. Just stop for a couple minutes at some point in time in your busy day today and just look around you. Pay attention to the people. Listen to all the different sounds. And try to just get a real good look at where you really are and try to imagine how it got created. Everything in this world doesn't just happen or appear out of nowhere. 

 So let's try to not go with the main stream of what others think is beautiful, but stake out our own path and grow closer and deeper to the true meaning of beauty, which is God Himself.