As artists, we often point our light inward. We need to point it at someone else. We may have the light they need to find their way out of the woods. – Darden Smith, SongwritingWith:Soldiers
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What’s Your Creative Release?
My creative release is drawing. It allows me to play in a way that differs from my writing. Drawing gives room for light and laughter.
How to be a Better Writer: Exercise Your Writing
The writing life – and the life of faith – are ones of continual exercise. Paul tells Timothy to exercise in God daily (1 Timothy 4:6-10, The Message). No spiritual flabbiness is allowed. For the writer who holds her art as a means of exercising both her talent and faith, the same holds true. She has to exercise. She has to train because it makes her fit “both today and forever.”
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Fight for Community
Community isn’t found; it’s built. Once built, you have to fight for it each and every day. [Read more…] about Fight for Community
Work with Purpose
The Christian life asks for mind’s attention and heart’s affection. – Justin Cofield, The Austin Stone
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On Writing: Loaves and Fishes
Writing is like giving away the few loaves and fishes one has, trusting that they will multiply in the giving. – Henri Nouwen, from his Reflections on Theological Education
Writing – perhaps all art forms – dwell within the habitudes of uncertainty and bewilderment. I enter into the act of creating not knowing if I’ll create anything. A doubt underlies the thought: perhaps I’ve drawn my last drawing already, perhaps I have no more words to write. [Read more…] about On Writing: Loaves and Fishes