Absolutely pointless.

Beauty. We all LOVE beauty. It is the "thing" that makes life worth living. For our eyes, for our noses, our mouths, our ears.... We love the sight of the sunset over the sea, the fragile, tiny little snowflakes on our jackets, the smell of freshly baked cake, or hot coffee, or spring flowers :)... The sound of birds singing out in the dark after a long winter, or the voice of our favourite human beings... :) the feeling of warm water on our skin after freezing outside, or the soft fur of an animal touching us....how deep we can get lost, gazing into someone's eyes.... the feeling of water running down our throat when we're thirsty........ BEAUTY. We can perceive it with all our senses. And it attracts us so strongly. It almost seems as though we are an isolated, unsatisfied piece of a puzzle to which beauty is the missing part.... Everyone defines beauty differently. Tastes, smells, faces, seasons, songs.... everyone reaches for a different direction. But we all have this in common: we cannot live without beauty. Every movie proves it - we WANT to see beautiful faces, it makes us happy. :)) If we frame and hang up a picture or a calendar it will show an image we feel is beautiful, something that fills up a tiny part of our big big hunger for beauty when we look at it. This hunger seems unsatisfiable. We'll never reach the point when we've seen enough beautiful faces - we want to see more, a new one, another one - or heard enough beautiful songs....or had enough warm, foamy baths for the rest of our lives. :) We can go for a moment without beauty; a disgusting taste, illness, fights, fear - we can stand that for a limited amount of time, but the whole time through we don't stop longing for peace, for harmony, for restoration......

Life, most of time, is "pretty good" because the world around us is full of beauty - even though we tend to see the ugliness, let's be honest: ALL the beauty we know, all that we've ever seen or can imagine comes from somewhere on this earth. And the reason we actually notice beauty, the reason we long for it is not because we are the opposite to beautiful. Some are convinced that we need this "compensation" because we are dark and beauty is light. But darkness doesn't long for light. Darkness is afraid of the light. No, it is because we are a jar yearning to be filled with beauty, flooded with what it wonderful to our senses. And we stretch out for this so strongly because we on the other hand are the missing part to beauty itself. We are the perfect mold. :) Without our eyes seeing the world and marveling at its glory, who would define it as beautiful? Isn't beauty truly beautiful when someone's soul is delighted by it? Isn't love really love when it is passed on?...
Take a glance at the world of science; things on earth have an URGE to fall into "perfection" - atoms, electrons, all substances....The whole world - down to the microscopic level - is constantly pushing to reach the ideal constitution. When we scrape our knee, our skin heals. When we cut down a tree, it will fight to grow back... And we feel this, the fact that WE are meant to be in the perfect state as well. And that we are NOT.

It already begins when we are kids.....We want to play. Because it makes us happy. :) We don't want to sit down and do homework, and we ask ourselves WHY? Why can't I go out and play, and have fun, and be happy? Why is doing this better or more important than being happy? I think in a way we stay like that all our lives. We want to know why we can't just be happy. We wish we could just feed on beauty all our lives - every moment, doing nothing else....that is our deepest desire (which of course isn't acceptable cuz LIFE IS TOUGH. So tough luck if you don't like life.) Why can't we eat our favourite food every day, sleep all day long, travel for years to see the beautiful places of this world? Why can't we spend every moment with the people we love instead of going to work for a so much smaller income?....This voice inside us comes out occasionally, when we fail to control it. Moments when terrible things happen and we ask Why? Why can't I just be happy? We usually tell the voice to be still. Cuz we need to COOPERATE in life. Shut up. Accept. Adapt. And follow. Every religion, every society, every culture and institution has this one aim of teaching us: Get a HOLD of your desires. And most of our wishes get told: DIE. That is the only way we have found to make life here livable.

Let me tell you that the only one who's gonna tell you a different story is God.

Instead of kill your desires, Jesus says FACE your desires. Don't hide them, don't be afraid of them. You feel hungry?... You feel unsatisfied? You feel emptiness?... You long for money, or for friends, for just being accepted? You long for a girlfriend? Or for a different body?... Then face it. Which means, first of all, admit it. God says: You don't have to be ashamed. :) If you run away from the truth, from what you wish for deep down inside, you are running away from the answer itself....

We long for beauty. Perfection. Everything you want every day is an extension of your desire for perfection. Deep down inside we wish the world was still paradise...... We ourselves want to be perfect - we wash and "decorate" and work on ourselves, constantly fighting against the invisible hand of chaos that keeps reversing what we have done. A force battling the drive inside us that wants to restore everything. Our daily effort is trying desperately to turn things back to how we feel they are meant to be. Our lungs are meant to be filled with air, our stomachs are meant to be satisfied, come on, our hair is meant to be silky and shine.... :) But our hair looks crappy again the next day, we smell bad, and eventually we turn old, our skin wrinkles....we fall apart. And so does the entire world. It seems to be an impossible battle, and we get exhausted trying to get enough beauty into that hole inside us everyday to make the day worth it - to make our life worth it.

And then we fail to see the answer. That our longing indicates so strongly where we come from and who we ARE. It tells us that there must be an ultimate, all answering Beauty that we haven't found yet. Perfection. We try to reach perfection til our last breath simply because we USED to be perfect. And it hurts us so deeply to see that everything on earth seems more sacred, more innocent, more beautiful than us humans. We can feel the gigantic, unmeasurable BREAK that took place between us in perfection and us in our mess now... We know that this is NOT how things are meant to be. And it tears us apart inside when we realize that the way it is now can - at most - be described with the word pointless. 

Life without beauty is pointless.

And now replace "beauty" with God, because what we truly thirst for is not the beauty of a song, or a taste or a snowflake..... 

It is the infinite beauty of a PERSON.

Life without God is nothing. Absolutely pointless.