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| bench art, Santiago, Chile, 2014 |
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| street art, Valparaiso, Chile, 2014 |
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| street art, Valparaiso, Chile, 2014 |
“Strange as
it may seem, beauty still needs to be defended. In the history of the West,
beauty has played the role of Cinderella to her sisters, goodness and truth. I
don’t mean to say that beauty in art or nature hasn’t been appreciated
throughout history—though there have been times when beauty has been the
subject of frontal assaults—but simply that when we start getting official,
when we get theological or philosophical, beauty becomes a hot potato…
In theory,
goodness, truth, and beauty—traditionally known as the “transcendentals,”
because they are the three qualities that God has in infinite abundance—are
equal in dignity and worth. Indeed, in Christian thought there has always been
a sense that the transcendentals exist in something of a trinitarian
relationship to one another. But in practice it rarely seems to work out that
way.”
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| Street art, Valparaiso, Chile, 2014 |
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| Street art, Valparaiso, Chile, 2014 |
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street art, Valparaiso, Chile 2014
"In each one of my experiences, the actual physical journey, the
people, and even the situation that I encountered there, all became conduits
for a transformation of some sort within me––or at least, they were the agents
for an invitation to grow that was offered to me. Something
about the experience itself became a personal and intimate reminder of the
deepest Truth of all: God is with us! “God’s dwelling is with the human race.
He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will always
be with them [as their God]” (Revelation 21:3).
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