By the way, people have asked Jamie and me how we fostered their talent, and to be honest, I don’t know. Maybe it’s just because in our house, art was a matter of course, along with prayer and Scripture and church. We didn’t force it on them. In fact, we hardly gave them any formal training (not that lessons are a bad thing). We simply treated creativity and imagination as a natural part of Christ’s intention for his people, and then fanned the flame whenever our kids showed a creative spark. Oh, how I’ve delighted in seeing them outpace what little I could teach. As soon as I removed the
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