What if...

I had a conversation with a friend last night that got me thinking. In my "quest" to try to define the beauty of Christ I have begun to think more and more that Christ's beauty is first and foremost shown through God's creation and specifically through who we are as human beings, the image-bearers of God. Last week I was at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California. While I was standing in line, I kept looking at all the different people around me, I was pretty much staring so I probably freaked some people out. But I was just looking at them through new eyes, I was just amazed to see how everyone looked different yet everyone looked beautiful suddenly to my eyes. Even the people I would normal look at and consider them ugly were suddenly the most beautiful people I had ever seen! What if God's beauty is displayed in a greater way through us as image-bearers than we realize? Granted that we are no longer the "good" human beings of Genesis 1, but we still are amazing works of art. Not only are we a beautiful creation in our complexity, our emotions, our diversity but we are also the only living creation with creativity in which to make our own works of art. We are God's Work of Art that has the ablitly to use our inherient creativity to make our own art. What if art is meant to be a way in which we as human beings display God's beauty? My friend made this statement "art speaks to people." What if art is a way in which we can "speak" God's beauty and glory to those around us?