He is God
Last night I looked at the moon and saw a beautiful shining face. Why does our spirit leap in subtle and indescribable ways when we look at the swathe of the Milky Way, when we see a shooting star, when we hear Allegri’s Miserere, watch a sunset or hold a newborn in our arms?
There is something inside us, imprinted in our genes that appreciates beauty which is, in itself, an indescribable something? Does beauty really exist? We can’t hold it or even describe it and yet it is something that each one of us experiences and can share with others.
Just as we can describe beauty we can also describe the opposite. Those who cannot distinguish good from evil and right from wrong are thought to be defective – and so they are. Imagine a world in which hate, murder, torture and vice are the norm.
The fact that we can look towards a creator of beauty and good is not just wishful thinking. It has to be. If it were not so we would be inconscient, unthinking, unable to relate to others – in other words – not us. The fact is that we are us – we do have these attributes and we do exist in this way. Therefore if we can distinguish good and appreciate beauty it does exist and not randomly but for a purpose.
I therefore exhort all of us to appreciate beauty, cultivate goodness, kindness and love and, above all, look at the stars. There is something bigger, better, purer, lovlier, kinder and more beautiful and, what is more, it is a person and not a thing. He is God.
