What is your favorite work of art? What do you love about it?
The correct answer is The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh.
There are few things in life that have caught my own attention more than the night sky. Don't ask me what constellation is which or what little dot in the sky is Venus, which according to something I read is depicted in The Starry Night, I won't know but ask me what it means to me and I might possibly go on forever. So on one hand I love The Starry Night because it depicts the night sky.
Secondly I love The Starry Night because it is actually the second one that Van Gogh painted, the first being what is usually called Starry Night over the Rhone, and that he never considered it among his greats, I love those facts about it because it tells me that we are never the final judge of how good or bad what we create is, beauty is quite literally in the eye of the beholder and I behold great beauty in The Starry Night.
Third, which could have been first and only, I love the movement that is depicted in what would traditionally be considered a calm, perhaps even normal night. It's the idea that the world is in constant flux, that things are always happening around us even when we don't notice it or we can't even perceive it. There is this sense that there is always more, more going on, more to experience, more to discover. It's the beauty of God not being able to be captured or quantified through out natural senses, but still such a present, over arching reality.
Do yourself a favor, tonight, look up.
Peace and Love,
Pastor K
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