Belovedness Is the Ground of All Perseverance
Tiphareth of Netzach Day 24 of 50 · Beauty within Victory
Enduring beauty
The twenty-fourth saying of the Living Christ:
Do not run ahead so quickly that you forget the beauty of the world. The life of God flows through all things, alluring you to the ever-present goodness all around you. From the birds of the air to the fish in the sea, from the trees to the clouds, the magnificence of the earth is manifest for all to see. The grace of God is renewed every morning.1 Every day the soul is restored.2 May God send out the Spirit to create, and may the Mother renew the face of the ground.3
Behold the beauty and wonder of the world. It is a refreshment for the spirit and the wellspring of wisdom.
Do not paint a smile upon a weary face to hide a faltering heart. A garland of flowers cannot heal a forehead that is bruised, and a banner that flaps in an endless wind will eventually fray.
Do not sit at the wells of grace and ignore the path forward. It is tempting to stay rooted in the beauty and never commit to the work that requires endurance to sustain. Do not let the beauty of the well make you forget the thirst of the village. It is a holy thing to rest, but the river is meant to move.
God, the Beloved Child never forgets the wilderness is a part of the journey.
Enduring beauty is the face of God as a Beloved Child. The Child is the one who knows their name. The Child does not run to reach the finish line. The Child runs because the field is wide and the air is sweet. They bear the wisdom of the Father and the understanding of the Mother, but without fear of threats or withholding approval. At the center, the Child holds all things together so the path is clear to walk.
Bar Enash4 persists, not as a performance for the crowd, but a presence. They walk between the quiet of the spirit and the labor of the day. They prepare the way for the kin-dom, yet they do not carry the urgency that devours. The Child knows beauty is not found in the destination, but in the ground the journey walks through.
When I fasted in the wilderness, I did not survive on the absence of bread, but on the presence of the Word that is whispered in all created things.
Belovedness is the ground of all perseverance.
Beauty heals our reasons for acting at their roots. It repairs as it reminds you that you do not persist in order to become beloved. You persist because you already are.
When the heart’s center comes to govern the will to move forward the soul is healed.
The world is not mended by those who bleed into the soil, but by those whose life is a spring that overflows.
The Beloved does not run from love. The Beloved runs with the strength of love’s abundance.
Lamentations 3:22-23
2 Corinthians 4:16
Psalms 104:30
Bar Enash (בר אנשׁ) is Aramaic for “Son of Man” or “The Human One”
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