Evidently there is a new sculpture garden in Lehi, Utah. And it looks like something I will definitely have to stop by and visit whenever I'm there next. Something the sculptor said made me take pause and think. She said:
“I watched something very dreadful happening in the world, through media, through television, through entertainment, through music. It was a widespread blitz of negating good with the tool of humor, it began to level every moral standard and I was shocked. I was horrified as I was seeing what was happening to our world and to our society,” said Angela Johnson.
As I thought on that, I couldn't help but agree with with her thoughts. I, too, have watched this "something very dreadful" happen in the world around me. It is easier seen with hindsight, but can still be noticed by the discerning and spiritual eye even without hindsight. It makes me wonder why it is that we don't seem to pick up on this "something dreadful" until we are older and more mature? Why is it that the young can't seem to see it as readily? Especially since they are the ones that could benefit from seeing it sooner, so that they might raise their children in an even better surrounding sooner in life. I've come to trust that the Lord knows what He is doing, and there must be a good reason for things being the way they are.
Still - things like this are worth taking it, and they are worth spreading the word about it. Hopefully, there will be plenty of younger folks, who are still raising kids, that will 'see' what is there to see, and plenty of others whose faith can be increased by taking in such beauty and spiritually uplifting art.
Here is a KSL News video from 2015 on the Garden and Angela Johnson's explanation for it:
“I believe people will come by the thousands, I believe they will come by the tens of thousands, grateful for a setting in which they can reflect and contemplate, a place to meditate and yes, a place to pray. We don’t have a lot of those kinds of places publically in our busy, noisy, 21st century lives.”(Elder Jeffrey R. Holland)
Click HERE to visit the site and see the sculptures.
“I watched something very dreadful happening in the world, through media, through television, through entertainment, through music. It was a widespread blitz of negating good with the tool of humor, it began to level every moral standard and I was shocked. I was horrified as I was seeing what was happening to our world and to our society,” said Angela Johnson.
As I thought on that, I couldn't help but agree with with her thoughts. I, too, have watched this "something very dreadful" happen in the world around me. It is easier seen with hindsight, but can still be noticed by the discerning and spiritual eye even without hindsight. It makes me wonder why it is that we don't seem to pick up on this "something dreadful" until we are older and more mature? Why is it that the young can't seem to see it as readily? Especially since they are the ones that could benefit from seeing it sooner, so that they might raise their children in an even better surrounding sooner in life. I've come to trust that the Lord knows what He is doing, and there must be a good reason for things being the way they are.
Still - things like this are worth taking it, and they are worth spreading the word about it. Hopefully, there will be plenty of younger folks, who are still raising kids, that will 'see' what is there to see, and plenty of others whose faith can be increased by taking in such beauty and spiritually uplifting art.
Here is a KSL News video from 2015 on the Garden and Angela Johnson's explanation for it:
I am grateful for artists that bring the Spirit of Christ into this world. The world still is full of beauty and spiritually uplifting scenery, art, music, experiences, places and people. Even while the world seems to be sinking further into the mire of all that is evil and filth, we can rise above that by focusing on the beautiful and strengthening ourselves with the spiritual.
“I believe people will come by the thousands, I believe they will come by the tens of thousands, grateful for a setting in which they can reflect and contemplate, a place to meditate and yes, a place to pray. We don’t have a lot of those kinds of places publically in our busy, noisy, 21st century lives.”(Elder Jeffrey R. Holland)
Click HERE to visit the site and see the sculptures.
Another KSL News video, showing how the sculptures were made-
