Cultivating Beauty

One of the ways we experience God is through the beauty of his creation. Beauty heals. Beauty refreshes. Beauty puts our souls at rest. Beauty speaks hope. In today’s podcast, Stasi, along with Polly Dodge and Jamie Goudie of the Wild at Heart team, share the ways they cultivate beauty, and why choosing to look for beauty is so important. Jesus is Divine Beauty, perfect, alluring, and glorious. When we ask him, he will help us find beauty even in desolate places, surprising us with it in abundance, healing our hearts and opening us to receive even more of him.

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SHOW NOTES:
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VERSES:
Matthew 5:48 (NIV) — Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Song of Solomon 5:16 (NIV) — His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, this is my friend,daughters of Jerusalem.

Psalm 27:4 (NIV) — One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.

Isaiah 33:17(NIV) — Your eyes will see the king in his beauty and view a land that stretches afar.

Psalm 45 (in its entirety, but here 45:1 [NIV]) — My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

Isaiah 43:19(NIV) — See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

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OTHER RESOURCES:
The Journey of Desire by John Eldredge – https://wahe.art/46qgloe

Beginning quote by Jonathan Edwards from The Nature of True Virtue – https://wahe.art/3qY6HJe

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