We’ve been living in a winter wonderland here the last few days. I post this photo (taken from my balcony) in my inspiration blog because beauty is most inspiring, isn’t it.
I also came across this today:
“The ideal outcome of an encounter with beauty through art is that one will want to become a beautiful human being, like Christ himself. Art serves in this case as both a model of beauty and a stimulus to beauty. When we encounter true beauty, we encounter it as a kind of epiphany that pulls us into the object of beauty, pulls us up toward the Source of beauty, pulls us outside of ourselves, and finally pulls us out toward others.” W. David. O. Taylor in the foreword to ‘How Beauty Will Save the World’ by Winfield Bevins
And that caused me to think about these words from Timothy Keller in his book ‘The Reason for God’:
“We have a sense that the world is not the way it ought to be. We have a sense that we are very flawed and yet very great. We have a longing for love and beauty that nothing in this world can fulfill. We have a deep need to know meaning and purpose. Which worldview best accounts for these things?“
Beauty beckons us to lift our eyes and consider the goodness of God calling us to much greater things.