Appreciating and Delighting in the Beautiful

The closer we are to God, the more we awaken to and appreciate all His wonders and beauty around us. Solomon had the greatest wisdom of any man who ever lived, and because of it he was a prolific scientist, poet, and architect - experiencing and displaying the marvelous attributes of God through art and discovery. God is creative and beautiful, and we come to know Him more through these things. In the same way, we can also share Him with others through beauty.
If God was cold and boring, He would have just made one kind of tree and said, "here you go, breathe it." Instead, He created a multitude of kinds of plants and flowers, which may seem so fragile and pointless to a practical mind, but give joy and delight to the childlike. He created art, various landscapes, and music - along with all five senses for us to experience Him and declare Him through. God's beauty allows us not to just hear, but to also see, taste, and feel who He is. 

"This is the LORD'S doing; It is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it."- Psalm 118:24. 

Check out Joy Loewen's awesome blog post on beauty:

http://joyloewen.blogspot.com/2014/05/awakening-to-beautiful.html