Leonard Sweet

Christians have made the gospel about so many things-things other than Christ. But Jesus Christ is the gravitational pull that brings everything together and gives it meaning.

Seek Christ, embrace Christ, know Christ, and you will have touched Him who is Life. And in Him resides all truth, values, virtues, and gifts, in living color.

Consider those things that you find arrestingly beautiful in the earth, whether they be beaches, mountains, canyons, or that

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which lies beneath the ocean. Consider the beauty found in art, music, nature, and the like. Ponder those things in life that you admire and that cause awe and wonder to stir in your soul.

Those things are but images of Jesus Christ, for He is the essence of true beauty