Quote from Awakening the Creative Spirit

Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Direction

by Christina Valters Paintner and Betsy Beckman

Morehouse Publishing, New York, New York    © 2010   239 pp.

"As spiritual directors, we support others in opening to the sacred, living deeply with mystery, and awakening to an ongoing encounter with the Divine. But, we might ask ourselves a fundamental question: how does one actually nurture an encounter with mystery? In other words, how do we -- and those we work with -- come to know God? Traditionally, we might suggest that our encounter with the holy can be deepened through scripture, study, prayer, relationship, church, nature, and meditation, but what if we consider the possibility that a primary way we can experience the revelation of God's mystery is through the process of our own creative expression?"  (p. 3)


-- submitted by Jennifer Knight


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