Creating is Incarnational

I recently came across this stunning description from Madeleine L’Engle about the birth of an idea. The excerpt is from her book, Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings. I’m excited to share it with you.

“To paint a picture or to write a story or to compose a song is an incarnational activity. The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary, who, when an angel told her that she was to bear the Messiah, was obedient to the command.

“Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, ‘Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me.’ And the artist either says, ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord,’ and willing becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary.” (Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings)

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