If you distract your intellect from its love for God and concentrate it, not on God, but on some sensible object, you thereby show that you value the body more than the soul and the things made by God more than God Himself. (Maximos the Confessor)

Distraction is a problem.

Even when I fully intend to concentrate on God, I can later find that I focused on something other than God.

For years I have been persuaded I was doing the will of God, only to realize in the fullness of time that my own will was much more in the lead. Lead us not into temptation.

But these temptations have - so far - been prompted by mental abstraction much more than sensible objects.

In attending to natural or man-made beauty, I have - so far - only been inspired, refreshed, and brought closer to God.