{"id":10863,"date":"2012-01-02T15:15:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T07:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2012-01-02T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T07:15:48","slug":"brightness-darkness-beauty-ugliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/01\/brightness-darkness-beauty-ugliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightness & Darkness, Beauty & Ugliness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the beginning of the movie ‘Cracks’, the song ‘All Things Bright And Beautiful’ is sung in a boarding school. And from movie-going experience, this sets the tone for the ironies to come, when some things dark and ugly are going to surface. The first two stanzas of the song went –<\/p>\n

All things bright and beautiful,
\nall creatures great and small,
\nall things wise and wonderful:
\nthe Lord God made them all.<\/p>\n

Each little flower that opens,
\neach little bird that sings,
\nGod made their glowing colors,
\nand made their tiny wings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If everything and everyone is truly bright and beautiful, a reflection of wisdom and wonder, as created by a creator who is likewise so, then why is there so much of the opposite – the dark, ugly, deluded and horrible, especially in human-nature, when humans are supposed to be made in this creator’s image too? For every little flower, there are a thousand thorny weeds, for every little bird, there are a hundred predators. For each glowing colour, there are many shades of darkness… So many cracks in the sung…<\/p>\n

Fret not, for the simple answer is that there was no perfect creator in the first place. We are our own creators, karmically speaking, individually and collectively.\u00a0We can take charge. We can create. We can recreate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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