Last week, for the first time in my life, I listened to an entire opera: Verdi’s La Traviata. I wish I had discovered the beauty of opera many years ago! It is exciting to discover a real “spirituality of beauty” in art and music that reflect the beauty of God.
Recently I came across this quote from The Shawshank Redemption. There is a scene when Andy locks himself in the warden’s office, puts a record on the turntable, and sets the prison intercom system near the speaker. The music, an aria from The Marriage of Figaro, pervades and suffuses the entire prison. Red, the narrator, says:
“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free”.
Today, let’s savor beauty and resurrection in places we least expect!
In the Hands of the Potter 
refreshing to hear there are still things out there that makes one feel part of something..