Art and Faith: A Theology of Making

by Makoto Fujimura

And if you utter these prayers in faith, what you say and do will last, even through the most destructive fires. And Jesus will translate what you say into a building block of eternity. I do not know what that will look like: I only know it will take time. It took Melissa her lifetime to utter those prayers. No, it took faithful grandmothers and several generations of faith for Melissa to utter that prayer. One thing is sure: As we build on the foundation of Christ, we will choose to be in the pyre. Even our grandmother’s deathbed. The pyre is what Christ’s building block looks like from the outside. And we will be “redeemed from fire by fire.” We will all see and witness that ultimate Fire, both today, all around us, and in that Day.

Time to utter prayers