4 FOREWORD Foreword I stand on a young tradition as I write this. Since 1996, The Cedarville Review has had the privilege of publishing undergraduate work, a mere blink of the eye of eternity. We have shifted and grown over the years, and I am proud to contribute yet another chapter in the story of this publication, to take up where my predecessors left off. This is not a grand work in the scheme of things. We will not change the world in these pages; it is too large for us to change. But our desire is that these pieces might provide some small illumination for you, our reader, some insight or reminder to worship. For that is one of the key purposes of art, specifi cally Christian art: to direct our eyes above to the Creator and to turn our hearts to worship Him. What small work we can accomplish with this publication is to remind ourselves in the minutia and the grandeur, in the light and the darkness, of the good gift of existence and the grace of God. We hope these pieces will encourage, will strike and convict, and ultimately lead you to worship, not the work, nor the creator of the work, but the Creator of the creator who existed before all things, who sustains all things, and for whom all things were formed. Thus I say, in the tradition of my predecessors and the gospel heart: enter, welcome, and worship. Alayna Drollinger Editor In Chief
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