God is an artist. God is THE Artist (the ONLY true Artist), and an Artist creates and makes. God stated “Let there be . . . ,” and there was the world full of abundance and poetry. God invites us not to a church program (as important as those may be) but, as N. T. Wright has noted, to a meal. God THE Artist invites little-‘a’ artists to a feast and a dance. And, I understand now, it took Jesus to give himself to us, to shed tears for our current state, for us to be invited by grace. I end this book with a benediction for all of us on this journey toward the New.
God is THE artist
