Maybe God is Just Really into Aesthetics?

40 essays in around 100 words #22

I am becoming more and more convinced that God’s whole purpose in everything is to create beauty. A single match lit in a dark room allows us to notice all of the complex colors and movements of the flame. A story of redemption, beauty from ashes, from zero to hero, these are our favorite kinds of stories. They capture a beauty that a vanilla life does not. It’s like perhaps the cosmos is this giant work of art. As with most great works of art, it has to go through a period of ugliness, of pain, on its way to greatness.