Creativity Quote by Della Reese

There is a quiet radicalism in Reese admitting that faith, even lifelong faith, can get unsettled by proximity to other people’s pain. She’s not performing doubt for sophistication; she’s describing the kind of spiritual friction that happens when belief stops being a private comfort and starts being a public responsibility. The line “I have been a Christian all my life” reads like a credential check, but it’s also a disarming move: she establishes sincerity before confessing vulnerability. That’s a very musician’s kind of truth-telling, grounded in feeling rather than doctrine.

“Deeply involved in these stories” signals her work in narrative-driven entertainment (and, by extension, the moral theater of television). Reese is pointing to what storytelling can do at its best: it refuses to let you keep suffering at a safe, aesthetic distance. The phrase “it’s impossible” is key. She’s insisting that empathy is not optional once you’re close enough; the job changes you or you’re doing it wrong.

The subtext is also about the limits of easy, inherited certainty. Reese frames reflection as a consequence of attention: you don’t rethink faith because you’re fickle, you rethink it because the faces and details won’t let you outsource compassion to abstract belief. That final turn - “consciously aware of the people involved” - nudges Christianity away from identity and toward encounter. The stories aren’t metaphors; they are human beings with names, and Reese is telling you that the real test of faith is whether it stays awake.