Beauty

The God of heaven & earth is a God who loves beauty. -R.C.
Sproul

I have been searching for a one word description about all that God has made. Beautiful seems to be the apex term. God Himself, infinitely perfect, is beautiful. When we think of beauty, humanity defaults to physical traits and characteristics. Yet, beauty is much more fully-orbed than that. Mother Theresa was beautiful, and it was hardly because she was a Hottie.

I wanted to see what was the number one site for the word "Beauty" on the web was and it wound up being a site dedicated to personal care items like anti-wrinkle cream, lip gloss, and other goods (www.beauty.com). The site itself is a commodification of attaining physical "beauty" through products and processes and is profoundly non-beautiful. In a cursory review, it looks like ethical and moral beauty is running about 5% of the sites if that...at least among the most "relevant" sites (considering Google's methodology).

There is much ugliness in the world and having wrinkles should hardly register on the Richter Scale of what is unattractive. But it does...and what it reflects about us is hardly beautiful.

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