The author begins this book by humbly describing her wrestling with accepting the challenge of writing it in the first place, this book about the Christian faith and art. To her, all good art is Christian, as it points to the Creator. There is no such thing as Christian art as separate from secular art. Rather, all art has this holy awe of being something outside the artist, a work of obedience by the artist to surrender to the work itself, to give up being in control, and to serve the work itself as well as the community at large by producing the work. Ms. L'Engle sees the reality of angels and feels the impression of that vision on her work, recognizing the supernatural as a door into the beautiful. She acknowledges that it is the difficult times, where there is ugliness and harsh reality to grapple with, that the ability to see the fairies and angels and the magic all around is what can give the artist the ability to create true art.
*I'm forgetting some key ideas I'm sure, but this writing was more flow of consciousness than ordered narrative, so I'm adjusting to that!*
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