Truth, beauty, faith, prayer, time, eternity, art are topics I always have in the back of my mind. In a way you could call them my lenses for life, in that, without consciously thinking about it, my eyes and ears, my heart and soul, are always attuned to these topics. If any of them show up anywhere at all in my daily life, I pick right up on it and head into a “big think”.
Last night I watched a movie online, “In Our Prime (Korean, English subtitles),” that touched on truth and beauty via mathematics, which headed me directly into this new reflection.
While one of the main character’s love for math was no major surprise me, the same character’s reference to sometimes doing virtually endless manual calculation of a long, complex math problem as a means to being intimate with that particular problem totally blew me out of the water!
“To become intimate - you can’t do that by memorizing a formula. You have to get down and befriend it, to understand, then love it.” From In Our Prime
Even days after seeing this movie I am still trying to unpack this ravishing quote! In my life I relate all the key words to faith, to prayer and scripture.
Using “getting down” as a metaphor, I now see taking the time, making the sacrifice, to fast and pray, to read scripture, as “getting down,” getting intimate, with God - a totally new thought. So much more to think about here! O the joy!
