From Gregorian chants to Handel's Messiah to Verdi's Requiem to Jesus Christ Superstar, there are abundant representations of God in music, just as in art and literature. The larger point to be made is that it is all art - not just paintings and poetry, literature and music. Quietly sitting together with a friend, holding a conversation over coffee, engaging the body politic, cleaning up the environment, driving defensively, gardening, almost any act, thought, or expression imaginable is art: it is all art. Therefore we are all artists… engaging in our own performance art, the art of living, the art of being. We are all vessels. God is in us and works through us and we express that same basic, unknown, creative life force in individualistic ways. We each are unique expressions of the same God - each one different - that is what makes it art. What a happy canvas we are. What a bold use for dust are we!
