"all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made [factum est]" (Jn. 1:3). 

I am currently a full-time philosophy professor at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS.  My passion for woodworking began as a young kid watching my grandfather work in his small wood shop under his basement stairs.  It was there that I learned an important lesson: it is possible to make beautiful things.

I find woodworking to be a unique way of participating in God's act of creation.  As St. John Paul II, wrote,

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands. A glimmer of that feeling has shone so often in your eyes when—like the artists of every age—captivated by the hidden power of sounds and words, colours and shapes, you have admired the work of your inspiration, sensing in it some echo of the mystery of creation with which God, the sole creator of all things, has wished in some way to associate you.
(John Paul II, "Letter to Artists")

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