The Hows and Whys of Teaching Art

There is a certain relationship between the desire to be with God and the desire to teach art.  Both are hope-filled acts, the first a confession of our great need, the second a grateful thank you for our need being met by leading others to confess their need.  Nothing makes our inadequacies more apparent than meeting sincerely with God, our inability to live well, to be kind, to act moral, to share, to love without conditions than meeting with Someone who is the Shining Example of all of those traits.  But the generosity goes further, The Great Shining, in these meetings, shares His traits with us.  And therein lies the connection.  Every human’s greatest need is to love God.  The redeemed don’t know how and the unredeemed have no reason.  Teaching art is showing not only how but also why.  How is by saying thank You for the elements of art by using them well and why, is because you didn’t invent them and The One who did, shared.