IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED.

When we create something, we are partnering with God Himself in bringing new things into being. The ultimate purpose of the act of creation, therefore, is to glorify the original and ultimate Creator by producing things of life and truth and wholeness and beauty. My aim as a writer is to depict the glory of God as clearly and as eloquently as possible, and to take on His creative nature as a vocation and an inheritance. It is through His grace and the redemptive death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus, that we are privileged to share in this sacred calling to give birth to beauty.

I believe God plants a vision of beauty in the heart of every person called to create that produces an intense longing for something that never quite materialises. One day, I will discover that the vision God has planted in my heart is the deepest and grandest of them all - a vision of Himself, the Love-Lord and Creator-King of all the beauty that has ever been made.

Bethia

Jan 4, 20191 min read

Keep Faith - Remembrance Day Poem #3

Keep faith in the gore and gunshots on the Gallipoli beach –

Keep faith in the scrubs of Sedd el Bahr, a battle-line to breach.

No quarter gives, no slack or step, and in the swelter-sun

Of bright and burning Eastern lands, the soldier presses on.

Keep faith in the petty pricks and stings that make the daily grind;

Perspective-changer, patience-giver, prophet-priest of mine.

This faith, that turns the molehills and the miracles into one –

Did it soothe the Burden-Bearer when his fight was but half-won?

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"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing ...

to find the place where all the beauty came from."

- CS Lewis, Till We Have Faces

Bethia, 19
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Keep Faith - Remembrance Day Poem #3

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