Art and Truth

It is amazing to me the things I have started to learn just in these last few days. Reading deep, substantial literature about what art is and should be, coupled with extremely insightful commentary on the truth of the Gospel makes me stop and think.....or maybe not even think but just let the information run back and forth through my head. It is beautiful to me the truth that speaks of mystery and sorrow, because God is the one who lets us join Him in that sacred place... I think art is so strange. Not because of anything negative, but just in the irony of it's existence. I mean, art is meant to be used together with truth and substance, but that is precisely the thing which we are all afraid to see in art....and so at the end of the day the true artist is the one who lives in persecution, since the truth is so offensive.

But people are always wanting to find some sort of truth to life, aren't they? I mean, they might want it to be a nice, five-point list that shows them how all of life fits together, but they are still looking for truth either way. I think most people wish there were an easy answer to the tough questions....or at least one that makes sense to them. Heck, a lot of the time I wish I could just understand how and why life has to be the way it is....but the moment you suggest that truth is not something you can or even should put in a box, it's like people are afraid that they'll go crazy if they don't have the answer! (myself included, a lot of the time).

But there does seem to almost be an element of arrival when you begin to calm down and admit that you probably never will ever fully get it. Not that complacency should be encouraged, I'm just speaking as one who likes to always think about things that need to be though about, but feels a bit distressed when the thoughts only lead to an empty void of mystery. So I'm learning to appreciate that mystery and not shy away from it....which is a very difficult thing to do indeed. BUT it is rewarding...in a mysterious way....

It actually probably sounds like I have nothing to believe in, now that I've talked about being ok with not knowing truth and all....but that's totally wrong because I can believe in God's actual revelation and His mystery without being self-contradictory....when I talk about truth here, I really mean the ultimate knowledge of Truth (with a capital "T"), which only God has, and I would be foolish to expect to obtain. However, I really can hold on to some truth that God has revealed to all of us (special/general revelation, etc.) and that is really needed cuz most of living requires something by which to base our decisions on. So we have bits of truth that are necessary to have, but we don't have Truth in it's fullest form.... Ok thats probably enough for now.

Luke Yurkovich