A Pause for Beauty:
An artist’s journal.
The Color Purple
Listen, God love everything you love -‑ and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. . . I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
- Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Love all the earth, every ray of God's light, every grain of sand or blade of grass, every living thing. If you love the earth enough, you will know the Divine mystery.
- The Brothers Karamazov: The monk on his deathbed. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
. . .
In my life the Divine Mystery
Is a feeling that can’t be put into words.
And I don’t think it pisses God off if we walk by beauty and don’t notice it
Because if it did, God would be pissed off all the time
And that wouldn’t be good, or right
God loves the color purple too much
To let the ignorance, indifference of humans upset the flow
Of Divine Rapture.