How so? Let us count the ways...

• The arts are delightful to engage in and refresh our hearts and minds.
• They allow us to grow in our aesthetic appreciation of beauty.
• They are a magnificent vehicle for glorifying God for creation, providence and redemption.
• They provide opportunities to develop the particular gifts that God has given us.
• Through them we can make the world a more beautiful and God-present place.
• They are a wonderful break from the labor of technical studies.
• They expand the other side of our brains, the creative and poetic.