Beauty

"In all our technology, we have lost touch with the earth, our heaters and air conditioners robbing us of the drama of seasons, our cars keeping our feet from pacing the land, our concrete and our shoes and our carpet delivering us from the feel of unprocessed earth.
We live on top of the created world, I think to my self, not in it." Don Miller, Through Painted Dessert.

Living in Jakarta, where you find traffic jam and air pollution, tall buildings side by side with the slums, it becomes really hard for you to appreciate beauty. What is beauty? In metropolitan it goes as far as fake eyelashes, high heels, expensive dresses, name brand purses and... photoshop!
But when you look at the skies, the moon and the stars, the beaches, the sunset, the mountains and its splendor... they doesn't move you, for our perception of beauty is distorted.

We are locked up in our houses with air conditioners, in our cars and in our expensive shoes. How many of us have forgotten how's it feels to walk in the sand without sandals? How many of us have forgotten how's it feels to run in the wet grass and lay in the out with the stars? How many of us are so afraid with the rain?

Last Friday I experience one of the most extraordinary worship in my life. It was under the rain. It was raining so hard, but I have to be on stage and help lead the worship. It was thundering and lightning, and the rain was like being poured out from heaven. I feel like I was being under the waterfall. It has been a long time since I unite my self with the nature and find God in his Glorious thunder.
It was so beautiful...
One of the most beautiful thing I've ever seen is Victoria falls. What make it so beautiful is when we were there, there is this old couple and the husband is blind. So, as they're holding hands, the wife told him about how beautiful and majestic the waterfall is. And the husband was smiling, he hear the crashing sound and he sees it with his own imagination. It was so beautiful. The sound, the view, the splendor, the majestic of nature is so breathtaking that could tell us that there must be God that has a spectacular sense of beauty who created nature. Darwin cannot give a crap about all this.

Now, please close your eyes for a moment and hear the voices that you never heard before. We have ears to hear and that nature itself worked perfectly to calm the soul, and wind from a tornado has that perfect pitch of fear, that train rumble of death, and music, music, if it is an accident, maybe the one of the greatest miracles of them all, as beautiful as romance or color or the power of water.