I am, as you know if you have read this far, a writer, a creator with a small c, if you will, and I have long felt that we participate powerfully in God’s life when we ourselves are part of the act of creation. When you paint a picture, write a song, deliver a baby into this world, even—those are holy moments, and they are most holy for us because they are set in the physical world, in things we can actually see, hear, touch, love.

