Sit with me until I understand/why our thinking/and creating/and our efforts of mirrating/of the beauty, of th ebeauty/ why it matters."
~ sara Groves "Why it Matters" 2005
The first time I heard this song (which you should all download if you enjoy good music with a fabulous message), I was captured by it. Musically, it drew me in. Lyrically, I was intrigued. I listened to it six times. I pulled out the liner notes and read the lyrics carfully. It's a song about art, and why, out of all the things we do in life, it matters.
I'm not a fantastic artist, nor will I ever claim to be. but I love art. I love the beauty it creates, the beauty it reveals, and the power that draws you in, calling you closer and closer to the Creator. I love being able to use the finite abilities I have to create. Obviously for those of you who know me, I spend most of my creative energy creating stories and elaborate worlds in which my characters exsist. BUt, as I've said before in previous ways, I'm discovering that being an artist is more than enjoying art, or being able to create it. A Christian artist has a call--to emphasize and add to the beauty of God. I'm understanding that in new ways as I listen to artists I respect elaborate on their theories about it, and as God begins to show me that creativity is inborn and useful, because He uses it in a way that no spoken word or piece of theology can be used. As my writing curriculum states: "[It] create[s] a world filled with light and life. a world that mirros and interprets for our readers God's creation, that explains and organizes meaning, insight, and emotion--that points the way." It speaks to a part of our soul that is unreachable by intellect and rationale and logic. It moves beyond the tendancy to analyze and disect, and pulls out the parts of us that are daily shoved aside and forced to hide, the parts of us that were created in God's image.
In orther words, it matters.
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