Can Beauty Save Our Soul (or at least our teeth?)
Happy Spring everyone! I’m going to write about beauty in a moment. First, teeth.
This morning I had my mouth cranked open and an object that looked suspiciously like a tooth was extracted from my jaw. Thank goodness it wasn’t a real tooth. (Oh yeah, we already did that.) It was the faux tooth, an implant doing all the service of a real molar. But both real and faux failed. Utterly. The second (very expensive) one in fairly short order.
And lucky you! I am not posting photos of any of this! (This is already a win for beauty!) Instead—-I’m here to take my mind off my discomfort. And—mostly to offer you a glimpse of yet-to-be-sprung Spring in Kodiak this week.
(Disclaimer. We are not yet in our full beauty here. We are in-between. Our winter white’s and brown’s have not yet erupted into Kodiak’s summer jungle-green. But—-I’ll let these images speak for themselves. )
If you listen closely, maybe you will hear the Songs and sounds the psalmists have heard as well, more than 2 thousand years ago:
5 Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord,
your faithfulness in the assembly of tthe holy ones!
6 For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?
Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,
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He loves whatever is just and good;
the unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth.6 The Lord merely spoke,
and the heavens were created.
He breathed the word,
and all the stars were born.
7 He assigned the sea its boundaries
and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs.
8 Let the whole world fear the Lord,
and let everyone stand in awe of him.
9 For when he spoke, the world began!
It appeared at his command.The unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth . . ..
Everywhere I go, even in not-yet spring I see it too: The unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth.