We need to stop associating beauty with mere prettiness. Beauty is not cheap, and it is not reducible to young women and sex.
Beauty is a powerful force to be reckoned with.
Think Helen of Troy beauty - a beauty that brings about the wars of nations.
Think of the ocean - a beauty so deep, so incalculable, so magnificent & unfathomable that it terrifies us.
Think of a mid-summer thunderstorm - a beauty that swoops in in swirling glory and threatens to destroy us.
Think of the great French gothic cathedrals - a beauty that formidably points to an eternal, unseen glory, demanding allegiance.
Stomach-flipping, edge-of-seat beauty.
Breathless beauty.
Simultaneously fear & delight-inducing beauty.
Our modern world often does not understand beauty, and so neither does it usually respect it.
Beauty commands reverence, and beauty demands a response.
Courageous people do not falsely reduce beauty to mere prettiness in order to make it palatable.
Courageous people do not seek to destroy what is beautiful in order to relieve their consciences of their own mediocrity.
Courageous people decide to SEE beauty and let it transform them and bring about a response of greatness. They recognize that it is powerful force to be harnessed and used in favour of the good.
Wanting to be the kind of person who celebrates beauty in its fullest sense, and felt like inviting others here to as well today.
Xx, Kay