The Beauty Chasers
Recapturing the Wonder of the Divine
by Timothy D. Willard
A Note for the Curious.
Beauty can change you if you let it. That’s what the path of life has taught me so far. Beauty changed me. It still does. But don’t worry. This isn’t a book about sitting on beaches or mountain roads watching the sunset or meditating in art galleries—although I have done (and still do) these things.
This idea of chasing beauty is about pursuing a lifestyle that goes against the cultural grain of busyness, loudness, and naked ambition—you know, the kind of ambition we’re told we must have in order to find success in this cutthroat world.
My relatively short life has taught me that Beauty Chasers are thinkers and listeners. They see when the world goes blind. They embody quietness when all the world wants to do is scream. They promote the good of others when the world says to promote yourself. They give life to others when the world seems hell-bent on killing.
Beauty Chasers live their lives to a different cadence. They walk the path less traveled. If you’re interested in these things, and you’re willing to risk change, then read on, my friend.
“God speaks to us through beauty. But to hear his words, we must slow down and listen with our hearts.”
— Timothy D. Willard, The Beauty Chasers
The Beauty Chasers House Chat Tour
When The Beauty Chasers launched, my family and I went on a national road trip house chat tour. It was a remarkable time connecting with many readers—readers hungry for a renaissance of beauty within the Church and the greater culture. If you would like to book a House Chat, please reach out using the button on this page.
“I cannot live without books.”
— Thomas Jefferson
To learn is to walk a path.
I was late to the book-reading world. I don’t remember being a “reader” when I was young. My first love for any written word was poetry. Robert Frost, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe—all revelations to me as a teenager. My book-reading journey has taken me to England for a PhD and to various publishers to write my own story. I offer them to you here.
Books.
Veneer.
Our lives are full of scars, quirks and insecurities we have learned to hide in favor of a more glamorous veneer we hope the world finds more acceptable. This is the modern tragedy. We have forgotten that like the stress-lines and fractures of antique wood, these imperfections in our lives are what make us beautiful.
Home Behind the Sun.
We’re not in this to survive, but to live. We want to experience joy in the everyday grind of work, relationships, and parenting. We want healing in our suffering. Forgiveness in the midst of our pains. Purpose through the journey. We want to break free from the temporal and live with an eternal perspective. We want to be brilliant.
Longing for More.
In Longing for More, Timothy Willard invites us to think and pray through our deepest needs, and explores how the ebb and flow of life can be used for God's glory. Creatively organized in 52 chapters that follow the four seasons of the year, the daily readings point the way to a richer spiritual life.
