Beauty Will Save the World - Tim Knipp, Gen. 2:9; 2:23;4:23;Ps. 27:4

Beauty entices
and colors our eyes,
cultivating desires
for truth
or lies.

Adam's response
to Eve
was a spontaneous
poem -
a creation
for
a creation
and
Creator.

Lamech's poem
of twisted beauty
celebrates violence
and
revenge.
Twisted beauty
perverts goodness -
a black hole
sucking viewers
into a Godless
vacuum.
Darkness must be framed,
acknowledged
and exposed.

Oh, how I long for Him
who gives me beauty
for ashes,
lavendar fireweed
on a devastated hillside.
Jesus is beauty incarnate:
storyteller,
actor,
painter,
musician
and 
scultpter.
Let me reflect Him
authentically,
with honor
and integrity
as I pursue 
exellence
and seek the 
deeper magic.

Scrub up your sense
of wonder,
walk forth 
into a world
that shouts the Creator's
heart
in every trembling leaf
and soaring cedar.