WELCOME May 6, 2002 Issue

Art for your sake

Warren Bolon

Does Art Only Inspire, or can it also redeem and restore? Is art only for those who "understand" it, or is it a gift—like grace—freely given but sometimes unnoticed?

As I previewed several of the insightful articles in this issue, I thought of what art has meant to me. I see art as a universal language that's part of our spiritual endowment, although we can be educated to believe we can't speak it well, or even understand it. Art is the infinite speaking to us without words, or in words that transcend their ordinary use and meaning.

Music takes me to places I've never seen before, within the inner realm, without traveling anywhere but beyond limited notions of ability. This has happened many times when I've been singing in a community chorus. That performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis—did I really sing that? No, I believe He did. Little egos and fears gave way to the divine Ego, and we were the medium for a language beyond learning.

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