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Enjoying God’s Reality

Posted Aug 21 2010 by Jonathan Brink in , , with 3 Comments

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If you haven’t seen the double rainbow guy, you need to.  This guy captures a moment on video that is priceless.  The original video blew up to 11 million hits and was featured on the Huffington Post.  On Huffington, it was shared over 12,000 times and tweeted over 6,000 times.

He’s in Yosemite and sees a double rainbow, which I’ve never seen, and then proceeds to enjoy it for about four minutes on video.  But his enjoyment is not a mere pleasure.  Its a deep resonance with beauty.  At the end of the video he literally starts crying.  And because he’s capturing himself on video, he’s completely uninhibited in his expression. I was amazed at his ability to appreciate beauty as much as what he was appreciating.  To take in beauty is a rare art that requires an almost complete surrender to the moment.

As funny as it originally seems – the guy might be on drugs – there’s also something deeply spiritual about it.  I would suggest that we long to appreciate beauty in a very tangible way.  There is so much chaos in our lives on a daily basis, that it’s easy to completely miss beauty. It’s easy to just pass it by because we’re consumed by our pain and suffering.  So when we see someone connecting to it in a deep and meaningful way it captures our attention.

What shows up for you in this?

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Jonathan BrinkI am an business development and communications consultant. I am also the senior editor and publisher for Civitas Press. I recently published, Discovering The God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole, New Christianity. (Civitas, 2011)View all posts by Jonathan Brink →

  • Josh

    Sometimes there are places or events in our lives that impact us in such a way that it makes us want to laugh, and weep all at the same time.

  • http://openmindedconversations.blogspot.com/ jshmueller

    If I knew I was going to be seen on video, that would be exactly the kind of thing PREVENTING me to be able to surrender to the moment. What others think of me shouldn’t matter and I know that and agree with it, but truth is, it still matters a whole lot and takes a big effort to overcome. And once a mental effort is involved, there is no natural flow of enjoyment anymore, if you know what I mean.rnrnBut thanks for posting this! What comes to mind is: “Unless you become like children, you are not going to be able to see the kingdom of God”!

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