I am a writer, artist, and independent scholar in Waxhaw, North Carolina.
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My mission for it is to help you live like beauty matters and inspire you to live with passion and purpose in an aimless world.
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Chasing beauty.
Chasing beauty.
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The everyday road of life is littered with the pains of growing up, loving and failing to love, of peace and discord. What is God saying through all the muck of life? God speaks to us through beauty. But to hear his words, we must slow down and listen with our hearts.
What would happen if you and I slowed down and looked at the world and our lives with new eyes? In his counter-cultural book, The Beauty Chasers, author Timothy Willard shows us a secret passageway that leads beyond the muck of life and the utility mindset that banished beauty from our hearts.
He gives us a guidebook for discovering how to see the world with fresh eyes and let beauty guide us in life and our relationship with God.
The Beauty Chasers will ...
Inspire you to live life as a participant instead of a spectator.
Guide you toward a life of presence rather than distraction.
Give you permission to slow down and drink from the well of spiritual rest.
Refresh your perspective on the "wonder-full" ways of God.
Help you live like beauty matters.
Are you ready to live life to a different cadence? Do you find yourself longing to recapture the wonder in your spiritual journey? Are you willing to walk the path less traveled? If so, then read on, friend.
Beauty can change you if you let it. That’s what the path of life has taught me so far. Beauty changed me. It still does. But don’t worry. This isn’t a book about sitting on beaches or mountain roads watching the sunset or meditating in art galleries—although I have done (and still do) these things.
This idea of chasing beauty is about pursuing a lifestyle that goes against the cultural grain of busyness, loudness, and naked ambition—you know, the kind of ambition we’re told we must have in order to find success in this cutthroat world.
My relatively short life has taught me that Beauty Chasers are thinkers and listeners. They see when the world goes blind. They embody quietness when all the world wants to do is scream. They promote the good of others when the world says to promote yourself. They give life to others when the world seems hell-bent on killing.
Beauty Chasers live their lives to a different cadence. They walk the path less traveled. If you’re interested in these things, and you’re willing to risk change, then read on, my friend.