“Life is a passage through a museum
of beauty.” Robert Geen, Artist
I read this quote in Geen's
Twice-Weekly newsletter today, and it made me remember a visit to the
Philadelphia Art Museum many years ago. I wandered the galleries in
amazement of the talent and in awe of the beauty captured on the
canvases. Then I came to a room where the paintings were dark and
horrifying. I didn't want to stay in that room, yet even tho the
subject matter was gruesome, it was terrifyingly beautiful.
This made me think of other things I
don't like looking at, whether they be films with murder and mayhem,
the news, or even my own pain. Can I now choose to see it all as
rooms in the Universe's Museum of Beauty? I still get to choose
which galleries to walk in, and how to react when I'm in the one's
I've judged fearful. Perhaps I will stop avoiding various parts of
life, and see that all of it is art. Perhaps I'll remember I'm the
one holding the brushes.
How about you?
AFFIRMATIVE PRAYER
Consciously bringing myself to the
place within me where all is still, I remember The Core of my being
is Life and Beauty. I celebrate my conscious awareness of The Artist
that has created all, including me.
I now choose to walk through that part
of the Universe's Museum of Beauty that is my expression of Life. I
realize that everything I see, whether I have judged it negative or
positive, is important. As I bring Light into the spaces I find
that, yes, everything is beautiful in its own way. In seeing the
beauty, I am healed of the pain of my past and relieved of my
emotional attachments. I am now able to be even more in the present
moment, full of grace.
How grateful I am to have these
realizations. How grateful I am to be walking this Path called Life.
I release these words into spiritual
Law, knowing they are so. And so it is.
