I don’t think I will ever forget the story my undergrad theology professor,

Gary Lepine, told our class about Leonardo Da Vinci’s Sistine Chapel

painting. While articulating the outer images of Adam & God upon the chapel

ceiling, Da Vinci would go over several drafts & sketches of the central

focus of his work - the outstretched hand’s of Adam’s human epitome & the

Divine providence of God’s reach. Unsure of how to position each

character’s hand, the majority of the sketches would show Adam straining to

reach out, while God would only…