That Fleeting Moment of Profound Beauty
I think we've all had those moments - when we experience something so beautiful and fleeting it strikes a chord in us, so profound that we can hardly put the feeling into words and tears seem to be the only response ... and an apt one too. C.S. Lewis writing about this experience in "The Weight of Glory" said:
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things - the beauty, the memory of our own past - are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
I hope you experience beauty this weekend and through it, a glimpse of and a yearning for God's glory and our true home.
Grace & peace,
Deji.