I must be having a midlife crisis. But that was supposed to be fifteen years ago. I’m late!
One of the first cars I ever had was a brand new 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang. Some of you motor-heads will remember that was the year number because they introduced the Mustang so late in 1964. It was brand new and cost 1900 dollars off the showroom floor. Well, tonight I saw for sale a beefed up Shelby Mustang. I should be over this! I am too old to have my head turned by a car. But this was so butch. Just sitting there it looked and smelled like power. It was so masculine; it looked like it needed to shave every morning. No, I am not going to buy it. I would be afraid to drive it because I would have to park it somewhere and people would touch it or worse ding it. This is a car to put in the garage and just come out and salivate.
I know that some of you are thinking, “Why doesn’t he grow up?” I have. That’s why I am not going to buy it. But that doesn’t stop me from thinking it is beautiful. It is good to recognize beauty, whether it be a flower, a child, a sunset, a woman, a painting or whatever. God designed us to appreciate good things. Just read the last two chapters of Revelation and see the beauty of our next home. The Garden of Eden was beautiful. Adam and Eve were beautiful. The story of our salvation is beautiful even though parts of it are extremely ugly. The cross – that was ugly. The person on the cross – that was absolute beauty.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 17, 2009
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