Icons will show us, if we make the time to pray, the narrow way of the Gospels, bright with the eternal light which has all our answers. The whole perspective of an icon is reversed. It will not lead us beyond ourselves into an empty perspective disappearing on the horizon, but inwards to that kingdom of heaven, which Jesus says is within us. To descend into our hearts and there find in contemplative rest and divine love that Presence which is the answer to every earthly issue is the call of the icon. We need not push the point.
Young boys collect cards with pictures of baseball and football heroes.
We all have our treasured family pictures, reminding us of who we are and where we came from. Icons are not the creations, however beautiful, of the imagination of an artist nor the figment of someone's imagination. They must conform to the teachings of the New Testament or they are not true icons. They are not decorations they are sacramentals. They are missioned to bring us to a recollection and remembrance of the things of God.