As I spoke last week sharing my faith and knowledge with my middle school students, I referenced Pontius Pilot and his line "What is truth?" to Jesus during The Passion.
In the setting of a Catholic school, (and the personality of many of these little ones I have in my life) the student's view of truth is still very black and white and a beautiful witness to that "faith as a child." You see kids have a trust (for better or worse) that teaches us all too often jaded adults that there is something good and desirable about believing one another and placing our mind, body, and/or heart in another's.
And this is beauty.
Beauty is a trust in our Creator's goodness. It is first recognizing beauty which means relinquishing our cynical, jaded, negative views to allow the positive, bright, and good to wash over us. It secondly is a trust that the good will prevail over the bad, that life will overcome death, that love will overcome pain and sorrow, and that truth will overcome deception.
I'm glad I wrote this last weekend because today I am all too jaded and blinded by bitterness. The negativity is a powerful vine that creeps in and cracks open a good foundation...don't let it! Continue to see the beauty around and especially in you.
