Lucy and beauty

C.S. Lewis. You know our hearts so well. 

Watching Narnia today I was confronted with the scene in which Lucy uses the beauty spell in hopes of becoming more beautiful, like Susan. The conversation between her an Aslan that follows is an amazing, and eye-opening reminder of my value and your value...in the eyes of God, and how much we are worth to Him...

1. Lucy Pevensie: That was awful.
2. Aslan: But you chose it, Lucy.
3. Lucy Pevensie: I didn't mean to choose all of that. I just wanted to be beautiful like Susan. That's all.
4. Aslan: You wished yourself away, and with that, much more. Your brothers and sister wouldn't know Narnia without you, Lucy. You discovered it first, remember?
5. Lucy Pevensie: I'm so sorry.
6. Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are...

Let us not doubt our value or our worth. God doesn't want us to seek a beauty that is not our own. And with seeking a worth in beauty, (or what we think defines beauty) we loose so much of who we are, the true woman that God fearfully and wonderfully made.

Thanks Lewis that even the simplest  of  words can hold the greatest truths.

the beauty of art

"Art slips past our brains straight into our bellies. It weaves itself into our thoughts and feelings and the open spaces in our souls, and it allows us to live more and say more and feel more. Great art says the things we wished someone would say out loud, the things we wish we could say out loud... Do something creative everyday...every person was made by God, in the image of God. If He is a Creator, and in fact He is, then we are creators....!" 

-Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines. 

 

 

Wise words.

To begin this section of my blog I have chosen three quotes that are so very, very true and challenging ...

“I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts. It is easy to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence- easier sometimes then to wait patiently.”

“…the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.” 

“I never wanted to read the last page of a book until I have read all the preceding pages. There is a pleasure in doing certain things in the proper order.” 

-Elisabeth Elliot

(More on Elisabeth Elliot to come in a new "people who inspire..." section of my blog!)