In this quanitative, empirical age where everything is weighed and counted for validation, we forget to celebrate Beauty just for the sake of pure enjoyment. We stop listening for the Happy Creator pronouncing His Goodness on all He made. So many lovely glories are for one express purpose - Delight!
Take flowers, for instance, they seem in their fragile dance to say, "Look at us - from dirt we came. Can you believe it?"
"Beauty is to the soul as food is to the body. It fills a need in us that nothing else can fill," says Frederick Buechner.
Not everything is utilitarian - to be used or consumed. Some things seem to have no purpose other than just light-my-fire wonder-filled breath-taking Beauty.
Johann S. Bach penned "To God be the Glory Alone" on every musical masterpiece he composed. Bach knew the wellspring of his inspiration - and gave God Glory.
"Soli Deo Gloria," For God's Glory and our Delight - now that's a weighty equation.
