She's Becoming Gold: Beauty

Monday, May 19, 2014

Beauty

Much as Eve was the crown of creation, dance is the quintessential art form. And classical ballet, in my humble opinion, would be the art form's crown. Maybe that is why I love it so much. It is the perfect marriage of form, beauty, artistry, music, power, and determination. Indeed, Albert Einstein once said, "Dancers are the athletes of God."

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MelissaMay 20, 2014 at 5:46 PM
Beautiful!!
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Kethem

Kethem is one of the Hebrew words for gold. The really interesting part about this word, at least interesting to me, is that it derives from an unused word possibly borrowed from the Phoenician language. It's lineage is both unused and foreign. The gold that God is refining in us is also unused until we know Him. The gold God refines us into is of foreign decent.

The beauty within each of us, God's children, is not our own. It is His Glory found in us from before the creation of the world. It is eternity hidden in our hearts. It is His character, His Spirit, His Son. As believers we have all of this in us, we simply must allow God to bring it forth. He is Creator and He alone can bring gold – His Glory - to the surface. It is a painful process. There is a reason God uses the metaphor of gold being refined. It requires fire.

Do you want to leave it hidden in dark caves that are unexplored or allow God to chip it away from the earth, wash it, refine it by fire and put it on display for all to see? His Glory in us revealed, what a beautiful sight.

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"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
Tallulah Bankhead

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends,"said Silvia solemnly. "It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest, if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world."
A. Croggon in The Naming

"The question is not what we intend ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us."
C.S. Lewis

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F. Beuchner

"Everyone does it wrong. Until they don't."
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"I am a verb."
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