"Art and Spirituality": Essay by Luci Shaw

Check out this essay called "Art and Spirituality: Companions in the Way" from Luci Shaw, poet and essayist. It was reprinted in Direction Journal from The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L’Engle, ed. Luci Shaw (Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw, 1998).

Here's a little snippet to pique your interest:

"Art finds meaning in all of human experience or endeavor, drawing from it strength and surprise by reminding us of what we know but may never have recognized truly before, transcending our particularity with soaring ease."

Luci Shaw on Art and Beauty

In the book, The Christian Imagination, poet, essayist, and teacher Luci Shaw writes about beauty in her essay Beauty and the Creative Impulse. Here's a snippet from that essay:

"Art is what we say, what we sing, what we show about the beauty that is bubbling up within us like a pot on the boil. It cries out for recognition and response. Because it is so significant, so full of wonder to us--this upwelling from our creative imaginations--we want to show and share it with kindred spirits. And so we have poetry readings and art galleries and concerts and square dances and films and fashion shows and coffee table books."

How do you show and share this upwelling from your creative imagination? Leave a comment and let me know.

Coming soon: an actor, a photographer, a painter and gallery owner

Luci Shaw on Madeleine L'Engle

Today, I want to direct your attention to poet Luci Shaw’s excellent tribute to Madeleine L’Engle. If you have not read L’Engle’s Walking on Water, pick up a copy as soon as you can. It’s a must-read for artists, and I have quoted from it on the blog before. Check out Shaw’s tribute at http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2008/001/10.8.html.

Enjoy your weekend.