Ever since the fall, our thoughts naturally flow in one direction: from the beauty to my enjoyment of it. Sin tilted created beauty toward us. But this is not beauty’s created purpose. Since created beauty speaks of God, our experience of it requires us to swim upstream. Beauty’s glory and satisfaction is found in the source, not the self. We must do what is counterintuitive to the sinner; in the wonder of beauty, we must think backwards.
~ Steve DeWitt; Eyes Wide Open
