I am a Goddess of Arson. I work to inspire others to light their creative fires and shine as lights to the rest of the world. I am incomplete without this fire, and it stands even til this day, as many have tried to extinguish it. I take this creative duty seriously, because someone, along the way, lit my fire and inspired me to do theatre. Ever since, I have immersed myself in the world of theatre, and I never knew it would impact me the way that it has. These last few years, under the instruction of Elizabeth Walpert, I have learned more life lessons and revelations than I have in the past sixteen years of my life. This school year has most easily become the most monumental, for I learned what I wanted to do for the rest of my life: inspire those around me through a love of the arts and God. …show more content…
Someone told me long ago, that “God was not ashamed of the arts, for someone who created the world in seven days would surely reign supreme over legends such as Bach or Beethoven”. I never realized that my passion could be so deeply connected to God. I’ve always viewed theatre as secular or subjective, but He opened my eyes to the therapeutic and healing qualities of the arts. As it stands, there isn’t another dream I remember as vividly as the “DreamTeam”. In this dream, I saw a stage full of dancers, actors, and singers, but they were all moving in the same way, communicating in a mutual medium that I couldn’t understand, much like the biblical scene described in Acts during Pentecost. I had no idea what the dream meant, but I took away three things: the relationship between life and death, the numbers seven and four, and the word