First I must ask if you have listened to the song. If you have not it would be worth it to go to
yesterday’s
link and listen. It will give one
context. Second I need to address what
the riddle is.
It is the question we all ponder and I will attempt to
answer it. It is a timeless
question. What is the reason for the
world and our existence? I know that
there are those who disagree with me and that is an option. I believe that design demands a
designer. I believe that the world was intelligently
designed with a purpose.
What this song does is ask that question from the perspective
of the beautiful things in the world.
One of the paths to discover of my purpose was to see what is beautiful
about our world. While I find great
beauty in the natural world I find more infinite beauty in the human spirit.
When we band together we are amazing in our ability to do
good. When an individual is kind he or
she transcends something intangible. In
this song Michael Ondrasik captures some of those moments so well. The moment between a father and a son when
the father challenges him to seek the reason for the world is so important.
He uses art (a Dylan song), the natural world (eclipse of
the moon), and love (swoon) to show the many ways in which we can see that we
have a purpose. I know that these kinds
of things all speak to me. I know that
they inform my belief and more importantly my questions.
The beautiful things of the world should push me to seek and
to see the purpose of the world. We can
create, observe, and experience beautiful things. Why?
What is intended of this? How
does it benefit us if we are not designed by something greater than us? The world tells us that beauty matters. It drives me to seek the source of that
beauty.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store."
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