I lunched Saturday with a young artist who has laid down her art-making, more like surrendered it, because it became for her no more than self-examination of her pain. I encouraged her to see this season as a time of stopping not quitting and urged her to see art-making as a hopeful act, a most holy act for those that are called. Art and Art making can and needs to be, a redemptive act, a manner of knowing The Redeemer, a way of living a continual gratitude. For if God be real Whom else is there to declare for where else lies hope? All creative acts are an acknowledgment of The Creator, for all creative acts are a response to that which is already created. It is impossible for humans to exist in a formless vacuum and conceive of a creative act. Being is why we create, compelled to create, and in faith, joy in creative gratitude.
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