is prison where the bars ban

or where the mind sits

where the bars bind

or where the Wind blows?

*Thoughts of Theodore L. Prescott:

-...encouraging an interchange between art and faith does not mean seeking the dissolution of their inherent differences, or the absorption of one by the other.

-To engage art is to use it, and it will do something to or for you, even if it does not cause you to go one a spending spree.

-One aspect of receiving and having faith is some fundamental reordering on the way one looks at the world.  Faith begins to de-fang that hungry, omnivorous creature within each of us, the one that so easily turns people and things into objects to satisfy our appetites.  Faith provides a different food for that gnawing hunger - "...he/she who comes to me shall not hunger, and he/she who believes in me shall not thirst."  So one result of faith then is that we can begin to relax and get to know each other, and creation itself, not as means to our ends, but as God's means of display.