In the Indiana Jones movie, the hero chooses the grail by saying it would not be so beautiful or even finely crafted. I was thinking about bodies as being like that. Ok, admittedly I am trying to find a way to explain why it would be desirable to not be as lovely. And I thought, "well, if something was truly desirable everyone would clammor for it, right? So, it would be better to be hidden."
As a teenager, I used to always tell myself there was a great reason that I appeared so humdrum. It is better to not even be noticable, and so I am neither beautiful nor hideous. Cause, my first inclination was that if I was a good person that would reflect in my being, regardless to how I was percieved I would simply radiate an undeniable beauty, but my exact thought was "you are not beautiful at all, everyone agrees. Likely, it us because you have sinned somehow. Only perfection is beautiful." Then I heard a hymn that basically said that Jesus Christ who was perfection personified had not beauty that mankind would desire, and my mind clinged to that. (From LDS Hymn "Reverently and Meekly Now")
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