In the seven ways that we approach practices for cultivating, Reading is listed first because it is the primary way for most of us to feed our capacity to think, to reason, to know, to discern, and even to remember. We do not only read words, though words are essential. We also read between the lines. We read times, faces, seasons, hearts, meaning, and spaces. We read. Reading is the process of synthesizing meaning out of forms into coherent understanding and thought.
Reading is the wellspring of learning, expanding our worldview, and affirming all the truth revealed to us. It gives us direct interaction with The Word and with all the other little words that spring from Him. Cultivators tend to be readers, even those of us who serve principally in visual or musical arts. Certain lines of thought, certain ways of remembering, become a kind of DNA that is passed on from one person to another to another, from one age to the next. Reading is a map, a portal, a passport, and a marker that allow to carry forward key ideas and concepts and share them anew with each other. It is the venue of language that reaches across time to one another and binds us together.
Cultivating is dedicated to encouraging & inspiring believers everywhere,
especially those engaged in fields of creative endeavor.
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