{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Prayers for the Permanent Collection","title":"Beauty Intended | The Rhythms of Beauty ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":195,"description":"Beauty Intended\nThe Rhythms of Beauty\nLet us, then, make every effort to enter that rest so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience. Hebrews 4:11\nCreator and Beauty, \nOn day one you turned on the lights in a world that was dark, filled with empty space,in timeless disarray, but pregnant with promisefor your Spirit was hovering.\nOn day twoyou made a home for the sky, dwelling for the color blueand blanket for the waters below.\nOn day threeyou gathered the seasand made land appear,a canvas for shades of greenaccented by fun-colored flowersannouncing the fruits for our food. \nOn day fouryou hung the sun from the skyto greet each day with delight.You sprinkled twinkling lightsto dance away through the night.\nOn day fiveyou sent the fish to swim and the birds to fly,large creatures playing in the sea,winged animals gliding across the sky.\nOn day sixyou filled the earth with herds of all kinds. Crawling creatures and wildlifeadorning the shades of green. \nYou fashioned humans on day six;your very hands molding clayto mirror your very self,to steward the earth and subdue it. \nAll that you made was good.Beauty created for your pleasure and ours,a playground to care for, a communion garden.\nThe beauty created was good.\nOn day seven,you rested.\n[Pause]\nThen the lying serpent crawled between you and us. Holy communion between God and his imagedisrupted by crawling sin.\nThe lights went off in our soulswhen beauty created became beauty intended. Now all of our ailments bear footnotes,“That’s not what our Creator intended.” \nWe feel it every day,creeping up our souls,the rebellion of our humanityagainst pure Wisdom and Beauty.\nNow, like animalswe’re eating each other.Sin has made us cannibals;our words are as sharp as molars. \nLike the world on day one,our souls feel empty and void. Hearts in disarray, longing for peace and hope.\nSo you sent us your Sonand the serpent was crushed.Your very self in the fleshtransformed beauty intendedinto beauty re-created....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ecB9oF1Zt1WpqVBmlsCUKi05JtYwosraqr-jnsSGTuM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iZTlh/OGZmYmIzNjAwN2Iz/OGJhMTEzYTlhYjg1/NWIwZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}