I was thinking about art the other day. Art speaks to beauty, pointing beyond itself to evoke something within us. It reminds us that there is such a thing as true beauty, and great art captures that essence. No work of art is perfectly beauty, but the best works have aspects that stir something within us, a longing for the true beauty that we are made for.
One of the things I love about being a Christian is that we get to engage with the world and enjoy all the good things in it. We can go to art museums and the theater and musicals and dramatic poetry readings and appreciate how that art is pointing beyond itself to the truest beauty there is -- we were all made to enjoy the beauty of God, the beauty that filled creation that caused God to declare it good, the beauty that we spend our lives searching for and enjoying when we find pieces and reminders of it.
Some day, there will be nothing but beauty. Until then, let us spend our lives searching for it, enjoying it when we find it, and then inviting others to come and see the beauty and to hear about the God who made us to enjoy what is beautiful.
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