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Glimpses

You know those sights that you never want to forget. trains are always gonna mean so much to me from now on. The Lord gives me glimpses of Himself.  Of this I'm so very convinced.  I don't say this out of pride, to illustrate that I see that which you can't or haven't ever.  No.  He gives the glimpses to all but most times our eyes are lazy. Settled, okay with and satisfied by ugliness and the fruit of bad theology.  I had never really pressed into the idea of art vs beauty up until a couple days ago. I always thought of them as twins. Inseparable. Because when I think of art there is usually a connotation of beauty with that thought. But if you really think about it, there's art that's ugly. Art that disturbs. She was saying, the lady I was having a conversation with, that all art really is, is an outward expression of our perceptions of reality. That's broad. Beauty, is narrower, It's truest source in one thing; God. And He shows me Himself in all the