Animation
All my life I have loved animation. Several years ago, we visiting Walt Disney Studios and took the tour where you saw animators rough out sketch drawing of individual scenes, stop action slices of life. Then there was the next process where people cleaned up the lines and made the drawing more distinct and then someone else added vivid color and detail. Eventually all of these individual pieces were put into motion through the process of animation, into the cartoons and stories that were the joy of my early childhood.
I have marveled at and I have been moved by their creations and yet all too rarely have I stopped to marvel at the one who has animated me. I have been captivated by moving pictures that emulate life, but rarely have I been moved by the Artist who knit me in my mother’s womb. Rarely have I sought to experience the One who breathed life into my soul, who moves the earth within the solar system or the tides along the shore.
C.S. Lewis wrote: “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.”
God is the life giving animating force of the Universe.
We have built Him statues, temples, churches and cathedrals, but too often it seems that we have built these walls as an attempt to hold Him captive. To define what is sacred space, to define the limits of our God. In our efforts to understand God, we have had to belittle Him. We somehow seem content to relegate God to the impotent role of a celestial butler. A mythical servant who has no greater self-expression than to see to it that we get a pay raise, a new car or a good parking space at the mall. We have labored to make God useful in the most pedestrian sense. We have brought Him down to our intellect, reduced Him to the servant of our petty wants and desires and thus we are no longer captivated by the Animator of the Universe.
Acts 17:24-25
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
Tags: animation, art, Christ, Christianity, Church, honesty, life, passion, reality, religion
You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site.