{"id":2300,"date":"2012-02-27T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2012-02-27T08:07:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:07:01","slug":"strong-in-its-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/02\/27\/strong-in-its-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong in its Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the areas of multiplied wonder is how everything works and works together; the ecosystem functions in perfect harmony, the animal kingdom works with the plant and mineral kingdoms, etc. The science of it all is a wonder, and a wonder enough without it also being beautiful besides.<\/p>\n

But as beauty is pervasive in nature, it seems it’s not just an extra. It’s intrinsic. And it satisfies something basic in our soul.<\/p>\n

God, it says in Genesis, called everything as He finished it, \u201cGood.\u201d Such an understatement. We’d have called it incredibly, stupendously, over-the-top awesome and, besides that, beautiful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In another place, it says that “God made everything beautiful in its time.”*<\/p>\n

I take that to mean all things that God has made are beautiful at every stage of time. Not just when they’re “done.”<\/p>\n

I’ve thought about this in painting. A painting, at least the way I approach it, should have a certain beauty from its first strokes. Then at every stage of its making it could be considered \u201cfinished.\u201d It’s the artist’s decision how far s\/he wants to take it.<\/p>\n

God the artist, makes every stage beautiful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A newborn is beautiful for its amazing completeness as a human being. A toddler as it develops is a wonder to watch. Neither of these are \u201cfinished;\u201d but for their stage, they’re complete. It’s the same all through life. Each stage is beautiful in its time.<\/p>\n

Beauty is in the process as well as the goal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And what is the goal anyway, but snap-shots in time?<\/p>\n

A great definition I once read of beauty<\/em> is “anything strong in its kind.”<\/p>\n

Strong it its kind!<\/p>\n

Beautiful!<\/p>\n

Even that definition is strong in its kind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With that definition we are relieved from having to compare across kinds. Something strong in one category is simply not comparable with something strong in another. The blue-green, semi-transparent ice fields of Greenland are majestic, but don’t compare them with the also spectacular earthen\u00a0buttes\u00a0of New Mexico. And don’t compare either one with a beautiful woman. Or a great piece of music. Or a sea anemone in the sun.<\/p>\n

I’m told that as Einstein was working his theories, when he was hitting it right he recognized the beauty in it. Beauty pervades nature, including in the abstract.<\/p>\n

We shouldn’t be surprised. But we can always take delight.<\/p>\n

God has made
\nin their time
\nall things
\nstrong in their kind.<\/p>\n

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*Ecclesiastes 3:11<\/p>\n

Writing from home, Dana Point, California.<\/p>\n

Next:\u00a0The e-gallery, featuring art done in Oregon.\u00a0Coming Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God made everything beautiful in its time. Seems to me that means “all the time.” Every stage of every creation has its own wonder. Let me know if you agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}