Ah we live in a world shot through with sin and failure,
fear and aggression,
turbulent with crises in gestation
How can we hope for the good
when we see so much deceit;
anticipate justice
when the plumb line does not hang straight.
And if we turn to look within,
there too is dissonance,
an imbalance of forces swaying us about;
no easy ride to harmony.
“Beauty and brokenness,”
I say to myself, and over again ….
No logic to provide a neat solution;
no resolution;
but perhaps a first step to healing;
“beauty and brokenness”
Alan Amos
footnote : in Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Peace prize address, he began by referring to a brief and enigmatic quote from Dostoevsky : “the world will be saved by beauty”; Solzhenitsyn confesses that the phrase had puzzled and intrigued him for some time. And yet, he told the distinguished audience, he had come to believe that Dostoevsky was right. ~ And I would suggest that beauty is one of the forms in which we see Christ’s presence in the world, for he is the Word through whom all things were made. – Alan
