Poem of the Week | 5. Beauty (vol. 2)

Saturday, 14 Mars, 2015

Verse of the Day: «Pour cette raison même, faites tous vos efforts pour ajouter à votre foi la force de caractère, à la force de caractère la connaissance, à la connaissance la maîtrise de soi, à la maîtrise de soi l'endurance dans l'épreuve, à l'endurance l'attachement à Dieu, à cet attachement l'affection fraternelle, et à l'affection fraternelle l'amour. Car si vous possédez ces qualités, et si elles grandissent sans cesse en vous, elles vous rendront actifs et vous permettront de connaître toujours mieux notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ.» 2 Pierre 1.5-8

Quote of the Day: “Life is, in a way, a pilgrimage.”—Plato

«La vie est, en quelque sorte, un pèlerinage.»—Platon

French Fun Fact: Louis XVI assisted in perfecting the guillotine. (confessedtravelholic.com)

What’s Really Happening Over Here:

Weather – Mostly Cloudy, Precip. 10%

Temperature – 45⁰F, high of 46⁰

News – French reality TV team back home after crash (thelocal.fr)

More News – http://www.ladepeche.fr/

A Day In the Life:

I’ve picked Wild At Heart by John Eldridge back up now that my course load has slowed down, and I’m really learning a lot. That being said, telling you all that I’ve learned would mean a lot of writing for me and a lot of reading for you, so here’s a video about another book he wrote which deals with some of the same issues.

Beauty (vol. 2)

They say beauty is fleeting, that charm is deceitful. True. True? Does beauty fade while the heart is still beating? What is beauty? What does it mean to be beautiful? Is it a trait reserved for women? I’d say it depends on your definition. We are all full of beauty—made in the image of the Creator Himself, by the Creator Himself. Did He create physical beauty as a means to an end? I think not. As a matter of fact, I think that beauty is naught but a culture-wide bought idea. At least, in the more modern sense of the word. What then is beauty? Beauty is found in a bird, in the unity of a stampeding herd. Beauty is found in the ‘I love you’ not only heard, but shown. Beauty is found in a woman in love. Not with some feeble failure of a boy posing as a man, or some fallen façade whose only working sense is touch. Not with the glamour of the fast lane and or in large dresses and white gloves. With Him. She follows, not only when it suits the interests of her faulty plans, but when her orders go against her flesh. Against her passions.  This is beauty.

—Theodore Wilson III