Who Made These Beautiful Things?

This will blow your mind especially after a few drinks. . . 

Have you ever heard angels singing?   Watch and listen to this video.  (It is even better if you watch it in the dark.)

Tchaikovsky:  Hymn of the Cherubim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ggUtlUHIqQQ

Then, read this while listening to the video again . . .

Question the beauty of the earth,

question the beauty of the sea,

question the beauty of the air, amply spread around everywhere,

question the beauty of the sky,

question the serried ranks of the stars,

question the sun making the day glorious with its bright beams,

question the moon tempering the darkness of the following night with its shining rays,

question the animals that move in the waters, that amble about on dry land, that fly in the air; ...

question all these things.

All respond, "See, we are beautiful."

Their beauty is their confession.

Who made these beautiful changeable things, if not unchangeable Beauty?"

(St. Augustine, Sermon 241)

Finally, if you can handle it, here is a sobering article about life, death, and your place in the cosmos . . .

http://www.strangenotions.com/god-in-the-dock-tragedy-and-trilemma/