The arts have been a bit more on my mind lately. We recently attended a lecture by an artist called Makoto Fujimura (http://www.makotofujimura.com/) which was excellent. He shared about how good art often is an estuary between two worlds...the world as it is and the world as it could be. Interesting idea.
We then went to the Chicago Art Institute and saw great art.
Then this past weekend we went to a conference at a local church about art and worship in the church. I came away from this weekend reminded again of the role of tension in our lives. One of the speakers pointed out how often the best works of art, or our best learning moments in life, come out of times of tension. He expanded on that by suggesting that as Christians we will always live in tension. We live in the reality of how the earth is while at the same time knowing the reality of what is yet to come which equals tension (this reminded me of the estuary idea again).
Anyways, don't think I'll become a master artist any time soon. But it's been fun focusing a bit more on the idea of art. If anything it is inspiring me to try and finish a quilt that has been on the shelf for 1/2 a year now.
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