Thoughts

I am at church, waiting for Mass to start. I haven’t been to weekday Mass in a while. After saying my prayers, I am sitting here musing: on God, elegance, and elegance without worldliness. I think lots of people, unfortunately, associate elegance and class with expensive clothes, nice cars, fame, money, etc. While these things are helpful, they don’t make us what we are. Elegance comes from within, from a beautiful heart and mind. The Bible even says, blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. This indicates to me that God wants us to look after our hearts (Guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life.) Guarding our hearts by listening to quality music, reading good books, and taking care of our minds in other ways (like attending church regularly and spending time with other Christians) helps us to be elegant without worldliness, which is perhaps the highest elegance of all. Hope this helps.