Hiking Helps You Understand art And God

We have several sayings in our family two are oft-repeated, “If you don’t work you don’t eat” and “some people build the world others live in it, we are going to build the world.”  I love to work, the build, make, and create.  In William Dyrness book, Poetic Theology, he develops the idea that there are two ways of being Christ-like, praxis, Greek for doing and poesis, Greek for making.  Dyrness believes that the latter, making, when done in the sphere of art and creativity is a primary way by which we develop our faith and create culture that acknowledges God at its center.  There is a way of living that expresses itself daily by the creative act, the act of making but specifically making better, aesthetic making, or as an old hiking buddy, Tim Lee use to always remind me, “leave it better than you found it.”

Old home site we came across while hiking Jack's Creek Trail
on Thursday in the Great Smoky Mountains.