Util and Frui

Two Latin words are used to describe useful and beautiful things: util and frui. Util means useful, beneficial, helpful. Frui means enjoyable, pleasurable, and delightful. The created world is both frui and util at the same time. The sun is util; a sunset is frui. We need the sun. If that big star went out, we would die. But we don’t need sunsets to be beautiful. They just are. This part of the story tells us that the hospitable God who made us wants us…