One Body, Many Arts
"I really struggled with art in high school. I just couldn't make anything the right way." That's what a friend said to me recently. In fact, what she declared is in line with what most people say about their own experience in artistic environs. "I am not an artist." "I can't draw anything right--not even a stick figure." Perhaps you have even said these things. Statements like these reveal a misunderstanding about what it means to be artistic by nature. We are creators by pedigree, manufacturers by design! The reason for this ontology flows naturally from our theology. We are all image bearers of the One who created all things, and He has given us an innate impulse to fashion that which is good...
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